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Jean Webster (18761916) was an American novelist playwright and social activist. During the start of the twentieth century (1912) Webster wrote DaddyLongLegs an epistolary bestselling novel that she developed into a play. It met with much success and the characters were sold as dolls the money from which going to charities to help fund orphan adoptions. In 1915 Webster published the sequel Dear Enemy. Written in the same epistolary form Dear Enemy met with bestselling acclaim as well. The novel is unique in that the story is propelled by crude stickfigure animations drawn by Webster herself that add a whimsical air to the social issues addressed the care of orphans and womens life choices in particular. Sadly Webster died of childbirth fever in 1916 just a year after the success of Dear Enemy.show more