| has gloss | eng: Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Websters novel Daddy-Long-Legs. First published in 1915, it was among the top ten best sellers in the US in 1916. The story is presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbotts classmate and best friend in Daddy-Long-Legs. Among the recipients of the letters are Judy; Jervis Pendleton, Judys husband and the president of the orphanage where Sallie is filling in until a new superintendent can be installed; and the orphanages doctor, embittered Scotsman Robin Sandy McRae (to whom Sallie addresses her letters: "Dear Enemy"). Webster employs the epistolary structure to good effect; Sallie's choices of what to recount to each of her correspondents reveal a lot about her relationships with them. |