Jean Webster

Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster, an American author. Her books include Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best known books feature lively, likeable young women who grow up intellectually, morally and socially, told with humor, snappy dialogue and gentle social commentary. When Patty Went to College draws on her own years at Vassar. She died in 1916 at the age of thirty nine.