Daddy-Long-Legs (novel)

Daddy-Long-Legs
1912 first edition title page
AuthorJean Webster
GenreYoung adult
Publication date
1912
Followed byDear Enemy 

Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, as she leaves an orphanage and is sent to college by a benefactor whom she has never seen. The novel was initially serialized in the April–September 1912 issues of the Ladies' Home Journal,[1] and first published in book form by The Century Company in October 1912.[2]

First page of the six-part serialization of Daddy-Long-Legs in The Ladies' Home Journal (April 1912)
  1. ^ "Daddy-Long-Legs". The Ladies' Home Journal. Vol. 29. 1912. Retrieved October 14, 2024 – via HathiTrust.
  2. ^ "Books for the Children". Brooklyn Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. October 5, 1912. p. 9.