The extended family now lived in New York City during the year and Long Island in the summer. Grant, which Charles was instrumental in soliciting, having previously met Grant while working as an engineer out west. The firm found tremendous success with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) and The Memoirs of Ulysses S.

Also in 1884, Alice’s brother Samuel was born, the family’s youngest of three there were eight years between Samuel and Alice, five years between her and William. Webster and Company and appointed Alice’s father as its business manager in 1884 out of frustration with his previous publishers’ delays and royalties. Twain established the publishing house Charles L. Her grandmother had been a music teacher and “from her earliest childhood, books, and those of the best” surrounded Alice. Unsurprisingly, Alice’s childhood was an artistic one. Her parents, Charles Webster and Annie Moffett Webster, were married in 1875 Alice was their firstborn.Īlice didn’t brag about her great-uncle, Samuel Clemens, who was becoming famous as author Mark Twain - Pamela, in the photograph, being his sister, Jane his mother. Her fiction reveals her dedication to social welfare and her characters often triumph over destitution and injustice.īorn Alice Jane Chandler Webster in Fredonia, New York, the name Jean was acquired later, as a young woman.

Jean Webster (J– June 11, 1916) was an American author best known for her enduring girls’ novel, Daddy-Long-Legs (1912), which was successfully dramatized two years after its publication.

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster