Daybreak

Florence Alice Sitwell (1858-1930) was a British author and diarist. Her works include: Daybreak: A Story for Girls (1888) and Mistress Patience Summerhayes, Her Diary: During the Siege of Scarborough Castle, A.D. 1644-1645 (1890). In 1940, Osbert Sitwell, one of her ancestors, edited Two Generations, the memoirs and journals of Florence and Georgiana Sitwell (1824- 1900). “Long before it was light, little feet were passing up and down those great stone stairs, little voices whispered in the corridors, little night-dresses rustled by the superintendent’s door. She did not think of sleeping, for though the moon still hung in the sky, it was Christmas morning-five o’clock on Christmas morning at the Orphanage; and the little ones had everything their own way on Christmas Day. ”