At the age of 17, she finished her education and is at loose ends, still working in the dormitories at the institution where she was brought up. Jerusha's unusual first name was selected by the matron off a gravestone (she hates it and uses "Judy" instead), while her surname was selected out of the phone book.
The children were completely dependent on charity and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years.
Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster.
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