The Wheat Princess - Jean Webster - Livres - Bibliotech Press - 9781636374062 - 11 novembre 2022
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The Wheat Princess

Jean Webster

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The Wheat Princess

Jean Webster, original name Alice Jane Chandler Webster, (born July 24, 1876, Fredonia, N. Y., U. S.-died June 11, 1916, New York, N. Y.), American writer who is best remembered for her fiction best-seller Daddy-Long-Legs, which was also successful in stage and motion picture adaptations.




Webster adopted the name Jean while attending the Lady Jane Grey School in Binghamton, New York. In 1901 she graduated from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, where she was a classmate and close friend of the poet Adelaide Crapsey. Webster, who was a grandniece of Mark Twain, showed an early interest in writing. While in college she contributed a weekly column to the Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier and at the same time started writing the stories that were collected in her first book, When Patty Went to College (1903).




Webster soon followed with The Wheat Princess (1905) and Jerry, Junior (1907), both inspired by her extended visit to Italy; The Four Pools Mystery (1908), published anonymously; Much Ado About Peter (1909); Just Patty (1911), more stories about her first character, who was perhaps modeled on Crapsey; and Daddy-Long-Legs (1912), her most popular work. Daddy-Long-Legs, first serialized in the Ladies' Home Journal, became a best-seller when published in book form. It was a successful stage play (1914) in Webster's own adaptation, and a popular Mary Pickford silent film (1919). Daddy-Long-Legs was not only a successful piece of fiction but also a stimulus to reform the institutional treatment of orphans. In 1914 Webster published Dear Enemy, a sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs and also a best-seller. (britannica.com)

Médias Livres     Paperback Book   (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé 11 novembre 2022
ISBN13 9781636374062
Éditeurs Bibliotech Press
Pages 226
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   276 g
Langue et grammaire English  

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