page_title: Daddy-Long-Legs (novel)
section_title: Dedication
hierarchical_section_title: Daddy-Long-Legs (novel) / Dedication
caption_attribution_description: English: Advertisement of Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs
context_page_description: Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, as she leaves an orphanage and is sent to college by a benefactor whom she has never seen.
context_section_description: The book is dedicated "To You." Today this book is often classified as children's literature, but at the time it was part of a trend of "girl" or "college girl" books which featured young female protagonists dealing with post-high-school concerns such as college, career, and marriage. These books predated the contemporary view of adolescence. Other authors who wrote in this vein include L. M. Montgomery and Louisa May Alcott. In Georgina Castle Smith's children's novel Nothing to Nobody (1873), Daddy Long Legs (sic) is the name of the orphaned urchin who receives the assistance.
caption: Advertisement of Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs
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