My grandmother read this in the 1920's when she was a child and then to my mother. My mother read it to me when I was a child. When I read it myself years later, it read differently but in a better way (lumps in my throat for knowing). Reading it again now, I see so much likeness to Judy as to women today, with the exception of voters rights. I love Judy's sarcasm, and appreciate Jean Webster for writing a character like her.