Jean Webster
Dear Enemy
eBook
(Girlebooks March 19, 2011)
This edition includes an original preface, author biography and select bibliography.
First published in 1915, Dear Enemy is a sequel to Daddy Long Legs. Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous benefactor made up the first novel, hardly makes an appearance in this one. The main character is Judy's pal from college, Sallie McBride, who Judy recruits from her frivolous life to run the John Grier orphan asylum. Sallie's letters are mostly to Judy, but letters to others including to the home's moody Scottish doctor--her "enemy"--add some variation.