I wrote to Yuki Sato, and she had nothing on jean Webster.
Jules

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From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mary Boewe
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 8:50 PM
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Subject: Re: Jean Webster

Jean Webster=E2=80=99s eight novels, which mostly focus on adolescent girls= , continue to enjoy a wide readership among people in Japan and South Korea= , much like ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. As a result, Yuki Sato, Culture Editor at=  Tokyo=E2=80=99s MAINICHI SHIMBUN, has been working for some time on a Webs= ter biography, for which she has done research at the MTP in Berkeley,  the=  Vassar College archives, and elsewhere. Though her book probably will be p= ublished in Japanese, she also writes in English as may be seen in this art=
icle: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55a/404.html Her email address i=
s: [log in to unmask]

 Meanwhile, in addition to a fairly substantial Wikipedia piece, there is a=  privately printed book length biography by Alan Simpson who, when he retir= ed from Vassar=E2=80=99s presidency, sequestered the Jean Webster collectio= n there until he finished this book.
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Jean Webster was one of the guests at mark Twain=E2=80=99s 70th birthday pa= rty, where she is pictured in one of the plates published in Harper & Broth=
ers=E2=80=99 Souvenir of that occasion.

Mary Boewe


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Daddy Long-Legs is also a book, I think. My mother loved it when she was yo= =3D ung; was always trying to get me to read it.  I knew about the connection w= =3D ith Twain, but I don't think anyone has seriously followed it up, so yes, B= =3D arb Schmidt is right; there's a paper topic here!  Someone should do it! --= =3D  susan harris

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> Hey People, there's a paper here for the Elmira Conference..... See 
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>> *Daddy Long-legs *was the basis of several films beginning in the 
>>silent  era, one with Mary Pickford, including a Fred Astaire musical 
>>in the  fifties. I didb't know the Mark Twain connection.
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>>> Editing a biography of actor Ruth Chatterton, I ran across a 
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>>> The book has some comments on Webster, stressing Jean Webster 
>>>combined  writing with social activism.  "The story was inspired by 
>>>her work on  behalf  of orphans.  She drew her material from monthly 
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>>> Variety praised, "Daddy Long-Legs is a full-grown comedy in which 
>>>the  author  has blended a laugh and a tear in almost every line."[i]
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>>> Apparently, the play was quite a success for several years and 
>>>perhaps  helped pave the way for the sufferage movement. Never heard 
>>>of it  before-anyone know more?
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>>> [i] Review of Daddy Long-Legs, Variety, February 27, 1914
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>> John H. Davis, Ph.D.
>> Professor of English
>> Department of Language and Literature  Chowan University  
>>Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855
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