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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

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

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

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

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

Dear Enemy is a novel written by Jean Webster and originally published in 1915. The story follows the life of a young woman named Sallie McBride who, after graduating from college, takes on the role of superintendent at an orphanage in upstate New York. The orphanage is in dire... 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

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

Dear Enemy is a novel written by Jean Webster, first published in 1915. The story revolves around a young woman named Sallie McBride, who is tasked with managing a children's orphanage in upstate New York. Sallie is an independent and headstrong woman who is determined to make... Read Full Overview