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Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. First published in 1915, it was one of the top ten best sellers in the US during1916. It is a classic that has been loved by many for generations.

In Dear Enemy (sequel to Daddy Long Legs), Sallie McBride, the dear friend of Judy Abbot (heroine of Daddy Long-Legs), accepts an appointment as superintendent of an orphanage and promptly embarks on a program of much needed reform. The book, while touching on serious social... Read Full Overview

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Jean Webster (1876-1916) was an American novelist, playwright, and social activist. During the start of the twentieth century (1912), Webster wrote "Daddy-Long-Legs", an epistolary, best-selling novel that she developed into a play. It met with much success, and the characters... Read Full Overview

Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. First published in 1915, it was one of the top ten best sellers in the US during1916. It is a classic that has been loved by many for generations, a great addition to the collection.Any profits generated from the... Read Full Overview

Your letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I understand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the making over of the John Grier Home into a model institution, and that you have chosen me to disburse the money? Me-I, Sallie McBride, the head... Read Full Overview

Jean Webster was the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916), an American writer whose best-known books tell the stories of young and likeable female protagonists as they come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, combining humour, witty dialogue, and gently... Read Full Overview

Sallie McBride, the new director of the John Grier Home for Orphans, keeps he friends posted on the latest occurrences in that institution.

In Dear Enemy (sequel to Daddy Long Legs), Sallie McBride, the dear friend of Judy Abbot (heroine of Daddy Long-Legs), accepts an appointment as superintendent of an orphanage and promptly embarks on a program of much needed reform. The book, while touching on serious social... Read Full Overview

Dear Enemy (1915), follows the progress of Judy's former orphanage, now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life.

Revisit the captivating world of Jean Webster's beloved characters in "Dear Enemy," the delightful sequel to "Daddy-Long-Legs." This charming epistolary novel follows the adventures and challenges of Sallie McBride, who takes on a transformative role as the superintendent... Read Full Overview

Dear Enemy by Jean Webster, published in 1915, is the sequel to her popular novel Daddy-Long-Legs. The story is told through a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, who takes over as superintendent of the John Grier orphanage, the same institution from the first novel... Read Full Overview

The sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs finds Judy Abbott's best friend Sallie McBride taking total control over the John Grier Home, the orphanage where Judy grew up. Chronicling her hilarious yet heart-felt day-to-day interactions with the permanent residents of the John Grier Home,... Read Full Overview

The sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs finds Judy Abbott's best friend Sallie McBride taking total control over the John Grier Home, the orphanage where Judy grew up. Chronicling her hilarious yet heart-felt day-to-day interactions with the permanent residents of the John Grier Home,... Read Full Overview