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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 biting social commentary. In 1897 she entered Vassar College where a course in welfare and penal reform led to an interest in social issues that would last throughout her life. Her experiences at Vassar provided material for her first novel When Patty Went to College (1903) in which she described contemporary women's college life. On a trip to Europe Webster befriended fellow American Ethelyn McKinney, and later began an affair with Ethelyn's married brother, Glenn Ford McKinney, who she eventually married after his divorce in 1915. Just Patty, a prequel to her first novel, was published in 1911, after which came her greatest success, Daddy-Long-Legs (1912), an epistolary novel about an orphan, Judy (formerly Jerusha) Abbott, whose attendance at a women's college is funded by an anonymous benefactor. Webster adapted the book into a play which was equally successful. The sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), also proved a bestseller. Again, the story is presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy's classmate and best friend, who is standing in as superintendant at the orphanage where Judy's husband is president. Among the recipients of Sallie's laters are Judy, her husband, Gordon Hallock, a wealthy politician who later becomes Sallie's fiance, and the orphanage doctor who she often refers to as 'Dear Enemy'. The novel charts Sallie's progression from frivolous socialite to the realisation that she has found her true vocation in reforming the orphanage and caring for the orphans' diverse emotional needs. This edition includes the author's own illustrations. Webster died in 1916 after giving birth to her only child, a daughter named Jean in her memory.

Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. First published in 1915, it was among the top ten best sellers in the US in 1916.The story is presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's classmate and best friend in Daddy-Long-Legs. Among the recipients of the letters are Judy; Jervis Pendleton, Judy's husband and the president of the orphanage where Sallie is filling in until a new superintendent can be installed; Gordon Hallock, a wealthy Congressman and Sallie's later fiance; and the orphanage's doctor, embittered Scotsman Robin 'Sandy' MacRae (to whom Sallie addresses her letters: "Dear Enemy")

Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. First published in 1915, it was among the top ten best sellers in the US in 1916. The story is presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's classmate and best friend in Daddy-Long-Legs. Among the recipients of the letters are Judy; Jervis Pendleton, Judy's husband and the president of the orphanage where Sallie is filling in until a new superintendent can be installed; Gordon Hallock, a wealthy Congressman and Sallie's later fiancé; and the orphanage's doctor, embittered Scotsman Robin 'Sandy' MacRae (to whom Sallie addresses her letters: "Dear Enemy"). Webster employs the epistolary structure to good effect; Sallie's choices of what to recount to each of her correspondents reveal a lot about her relationships with them.

Excerpt from Dear EnemyStone Gate, Worcester,Massachusetts,December 27.Dear Judy: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 of an orphan-asylum! My poor people, have you lost your senses, or have you become addicted to the use of opium, and is this the raving of two fevered imaginations? I am exactly as well fitted to take care of one hundred children as to become the curator of a zoo.And you offer as bait an interesting Scotch doctor? My dear Judy, - likewise my dear Jervis, - I see through you! I know exactly the kind of family conference that has been held about the Pendleton fireside.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Dear Enemy is a novel by Jean Webster, the pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, perhaps best known for her Daddy-Long-Legs, to which this book is a sequel. The novel was a best-seller when it was first published in 1916 and its freshness, its warmth and its great style still makes it extremely popular among today’s readers.Dear Enemy features Judy Abbott, the protagonist of Daddy-Long-Legs, but this time she is not the principle character, but one of the addressees of the letters that make up the novel. The novel follows an epistolary structure, composed entirely of the letters written by the protagonist, Sallie McBride to her best friend, Judy and to others including Judy’s husband, Sallie’s fiancé and the doctor at the orphanage she works at, an embittered man to whom the letters starting Dear Enemy are addressed to. After Sallie and Judy finished school, Judy bought the orphanage they both spent their childhood in and she asked Sallie to become the manager of the institution.The novel itself is entertaining just as much as educative – the themes covered in the letters include child rearing practices, the way women’s work was regarded, divorce and many other social problems of the time the novel was written, the early 20th century. The letters recount the protagonist’s daily adventures and events in her life as the orphanage superintendent and they also mark the progress of the protagonist from being a socialite to becoming a mature and responsible woman.The book is a real page turner. The author is a master of character building and storytelling – the relationships depicted, such as the relationship between Sallie and the orphanage physician, are all complex and complicated, and the ideologies presented on accounts of the events experienced by the protagonist outline the way society treated reacted to certain problems at the beginning of the 20th century.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Sup't John Grier Home. Dear Enemy: I am sending herewith (under separate cover)i Sammy Speir, who got mislaid when you paid your morning visit. Miss Snaith brought him to light after you had gone. Please scrutinize his thumb. I never saw a felon, but I have diagnosed it as such. Yours truly, S. McBRIDE, Sup't John Grier Home, March 6. Dear Judy: I don't know yet whether the children are going to love me or not, but they do love my dog. No creature so popular as Singapore ever entered these gates. Every afternoon three boys who have been perfect in deportment are allowed to brush and comb him, while three other good boys may serve him with food anddrink. But every Saturday morning the climax of the week is reached, when three superlatively good boys give him a nice lathery bath with hot water and flea soap. The privilege of serving as Singapore's valet is going to be the only incentive I shall need for maintaining discipline. But is n't it pathetically unnatural for these youngsters to be living in the country and never owning a pet? Especially when they, of all children, do so need something to love. I am going to manage pets for them somehow, if I have to spend our new endowment for a menagerie. Could n't you bring back some baby alligators and a pelican ? Anything alive will be gratefully received. This should by rights be my first " Trustees' Day." I am deeply grateful to Jervis for arranging a simple business meeting in New York, as we are not yet on dress parade up here; but we are hoping by the first Wednesday in April to have something visible to show. If all of the doctor's ideas, and a few of my own, get themselves materialized, our trustees will open their eyes a bit when we show them about. I have just made out a chart for next week's meals, and...

Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. 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.