The animation itself is very good, showing a very early late eighties to early nineties style with beautiful frame-by-frame hand-drawn characters and watercolour backgrounds - none of that cheap cg you get nowadays. with other characters, narrations, and letters (she writes them a lot - like a journal) are very sincere but most of all original and this makes a very interesting main character and a very interesting series. The feelings and opinions of Judy that is conveyed through her actions, interactions The many characters in this series truly have depth and are far from being one-dimensional - It is amazing that the writers can introduce such characters and without giving them hours upon hours of screen time are able to define their persona. The story chronicles the life of an orphan girl named Jerusha 'Judy' Abbot through her teen-aged years up to her young adulthood. She died tragically in childbirth in 1916.ĭaddy-Long-Legs has been adapted to film, stage and television several times all over the world in many different languages and the century-old story still has the power to keep readers, young and old, enthralled.This is a part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theatre, and I believe it to a masterpiece indeed. Daddy-Long-Legs dolls became all the rage in that era! She toured with the theater company and enjoyed even greater success. So great was its popularity that Jean Webster was commissioned to adapt it for stage in 1913. Daddy-Long-Legs is Webster's most famous and popular novel and first appeared as a serial in the Lady's Home Journal. She began writing columns for local newspapers while traveling on holiday in Europe and published her first book, When Patty Went to College in 1903. However, after initial success, the publishing business and the relationship with the famous author deteriorated and the family moved back to their old home in Fredonia. Her mother was a strong, independent woman, Mark Twain's own niece, who came from a family of forceful matriarchs. Her father, Charles Webster was Mark Twain's business manager and head of Twain's publishing company, Charles Webster & Co. Jean Webster was born in New York into a literary family. It is in a way a Beauty and the Beast fairy tale that reflects the transformation of the characters and their attitudes towards each other and life. Apart from being a heart-warming story, it also reflects the author's social concerns and her interest in women's issues and the suffragette movement. The book is a young girl's classic coming-of-age tale, a genre that includes the Little Women trilogy, the Katy series and the Anne of Green Gables books. It follows an epistolatory format and traces the story through a series of letters exchanged between the youthful heroine, Jerusha and her mysterious benefactor whom she has privately nicknamed Daddy-Long-Legs based on a brief glimpse she caught of him once. The only condition he makes is that he remain anonymous and that she write to him regularly about her progress.ĭaddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster was first published in 1912. One of the visitors, a wealthy Trustee of the orphanage, has offered to fund Jerusha's college education and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer. Her anxiety leads her into wild speculation when she is summoned to the matron's office. On reaching adulthood, the orphanage can no longer offer shelter to its inmates. Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen year old orphan, faces an uncertain future in the charity home where she has lived all her life.
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