Jean Webster (1876-1916) was an American novelist, playwright, and social activist. During the start of the twentieth century (1912), Webster wrote “Daddy-Long-Legs”, an epistolary, best-selling novel that she developed into a play. It met with much success, and the characters were sold as dolls, the money from which going to charities to help fund orphan adoptions. In 1915, Webster published the … the sequel, “Dear Enemy”. Written in the same epistolary form, “Dear Enemy” met with best-selling acclaim as well. The novel is unique in that the story is propelled by crude, stick-figure animations, drawn by Webster herself, that add a whimsical air to the social issues addressed, the care of orphans and women’s life choices in particular. Sadly, Webster died of childbirth fever in 1916, just a year after the success of “Dear Enemy”.
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Review of audiobook version of outstanding, G-rated, romantic, epistolary novel from 1915
Dear Enemy was first published in 1915. It was the final novel that Jean Webster wrote, a year before her untimely death during childbirth. DE is the sequel to the 1912 novel, Daddy-Long-Legs. Similar to DLL, DE was a major bestseller in its day. Both are …