Jean Webster

When Patty Went to College is Jean Webster's first novel, published in 1903. It is a humorous look at life in an all-girls college at the turn of the 20th century. Patty Wyatt, the protagonist of this story is a bright, fun loving, imperturbable girl who does not like to conform. The book describes her many escapades on campus during her senior year at college. Patty enjoys life on campus and uses her energies in playing pranks and for the entertainment...

"Jerry Junior" is a 1907 novel by American writer Jean Webster's. Her third novel, it follows a wealthy upper class American called Jerry who sets about to woo an attractive American woman whilst waiting for his sister to arrive in an Italian village. Set in the 1900s, this romantic comedy will appeal to those with an interest in romantic fiction and Italy at the turn of the twentieth century. "Jean Webster" is the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler...

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, Sallie spills her heart out in letter after letter to multiple recipients, including the doctor of the JGH-one Robin MacRae, whom she has deemed her enemy and refers to him as...

Judy Abbot, que ha vivido toda su vida en un orfanato, tiene un misterioso benefactor que está dispuesto a pagarle los estudios. A cambio, ella solo tiene que enviarle una carta al mes, no hacer preguntas, y nunca esperar respuestas. Pero sus cartas están muy lejos de ser las de una modosa huerfanita. Judy mezcla las anécdotas universitarias con sus ideas, dibujos y teorías sobre quién será su benefactor, al que llama Papá Piernaslargas. Una...

We follow Peter's life while working as a groom for the wealthy Carter family. He has to deal with rowdy young children of his upper class employers, who tend to both look down and up to Peter. There's plenty of slapstick humor with pranks and tricks being played by the children. Later, Peter starts making odd and questionable decisions, but all ends up well.

This meticulously edited collection contains the best works of Jean Webster, American author of novels for young women. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers. Table of Contents: "Daddy-Long-Legs" is a tale of Judy Abbott,...

All sorts of things begin to happen when an orphaned boarding school student finally meets the wealthy guardian with whom she has corresponded for years sight unseen.