Just Patty
Jean Webster
Just Patty is a 1911 girls’ school novel by Jean Webster (1876-1916), the American writer best known for Daddy-Long-Legs and its sequel Dear Enemy. Webster was the great-niece of Mark Twain and a graduate of Vassar College, and her fiction draws on her own years at boarding school and women’s college. Just Patty is set at the fictional St Ursula’s School and follows the mischievous schoolgirl Patty Wyatt and her circle through a series of episodes that combine humour, friendship, and the gentle social satire characteristic of Webster’s work. The book belongs to the popular American girls’ boarding school fiction of the early twentieth century and shares a setting and style with Webster’s later When Patty Went to College. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.
