![]() ![]() (I hear this story over and over, and yet I never hear about the undivorcable mentally ill husband.) Webster’s boyfriend also had a “mentally unstable” child. In addition to being a supporter of women’s suffrage and various reform movements and education for women, she had a boyfriend who couldn’t divorce his wife because she was mentally ill. I don’t know much about her, but I did read her Wikipedia page from top to bottom. This part of the book mirrors Jean Webster’s real life. ![]() However after a while their animosity turns to friendship and then to.? But the doctor is guarding a sorrowful secret. Judy comes into conflict with the orphanage’s crabby Scottish doctor, the “Enemy” of the title. It’s understood that Judy will just run the orphanage for a little while, and then marry her rich boyfriend and stop working forevermore, but later Judy is not so sure. The orphanage is cheerless and unhealthy when Judy arrives, but she manages to transform it into a place where the children can have nice clothes, affection, a gentle education, up-to-date (for the period) medical treatment, and the chance to play outdoors. ![]() I was charmed to learn that the orphanage is in Dutchess County, where I live. In this epistolary novel, Judy, a rich socialite with lively and original ideas takes over the orphanage that the Daddy Long Legs heroine grew up in. This is the lesser-known sequel to Daddy Long Legs. ![]()
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