author
Florence Alice Sitwell
1858–1930
Best remembered for a Victorian story for young readers and for the journals she kept, she came from the prominent Sitwell family and left a small but intriguing literary record. Her work offers a glimpse of late 19th-century taste, especially in fiction written for girls and in family memoir material preserved after her death.
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Daybreak: A Story for Girls
by Florence Alice Sitwell
About the author
Born in 1858, Florence Alice Sitwell was the daughter of Sir Sitwell Reresby Sitwell, 3rd Baronet, and Louisa Lucy Hely Hutchinson. Archival records identify her as an author and diarist, linking her to the well-known Sitwell family of Renishaw Hall.
She wrote at least two books that can be confirmed from library and public-domain records: Mistress Patience Summerhayes' Her Diary: During the Siege of Scarborough Castle, 1644–1645 and Daybreak: A Story for Girls, published in 1888. Daybreak has remained accessible through Project Gutenberg and other digital libraries, helping keep her name in circulation among readers of classic children's fiction.
Her journals also survived, and later archival descriptions note a 1896 journal as well as family memoir material connected with the Sitwells. She died in 1930, leaving behind a modest but interesting body of work that blends fiction, historical imagination, and the personal record of a writer from a distinguished literary family.