Jean Webster
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Jean Webster was the pseudonym used by Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876–1916), an American writer and author of many books, including 'Daddy-Long-Legs' and 'Dear Enemy'. Her best-known books feature lively, 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. 'Daddy-Long-Legs'...
Author
Series
Publisher
Spoken Realms
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences.
