The children were completely dependent on charity and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes.
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. It follows the protagonist, Jerusha 'Judy' Abbott, as she leaves an orphanage and is sent to college by a benefactor whom she has never seen. Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster.
