Jean Webster
author profile
born
July 24, 1876
died
June 11, 1916
gender
female
place of birth
Fredonia, New York, The United States
website
genre
Literature & Fiction, Parenting & Families
influences
Social Problems & young feelings
about this author
Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster) was born July 24, 1876 and died June 11, 1916. She was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. (The books are available online in the etext collection, A Celebration of Women Writers,and in downloadable form at Project Gutenberg.) Her most well-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.
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Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster avg rating 3.94 — 1,675 ratings — published 1912 89 editions |
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Dear Enemy by Jean Webster avg rating 3.58 — 398 ratings — published 1915 31 editions |
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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy by Jean Webster, Elaine Showalter avg rating 4.03 — 252 ratings — published 1981 3 editions |
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When Patty Went to College by Jean Webster avg rating 3.25 — 110 ratings — published 1903 6 editions |
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Jerry Junior by Jean Webster avg rating 3.07 — 57 ratings — published 2005 5 editions |
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Just Patty by Jean Webster avg rating 3.91 — 23 ratings — published 2007 5 editions |
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دشمن عزيز by Jean Webster avg rating 3.50 — 14 ratings — published 1378 |
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Gift from the Blue Veil by Jean Webster avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2002 |
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جری جوان by Jean Webster avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings |
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وقتی پتی به دانشکده می رفت by Jean Webster avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings |
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"It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit.
It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win."
— Jean Webster (Daddy Long Legs)
It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win."
— Jean Webster (Daddy Long Legs)
"Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor."
— Jean Webster
— Jean Webster
"It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones."
— Jean Webster
— Jean Webster
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