E. Nesbit 
Daphne in Fitzroy Street 

Daphne in Fitzroy Street by E. Nesbit is about the life of sweet young Daphne and her girlfriends who all go away for the holidays. Excerpt: ‘It was the fifth of April. Also, it was a very fine day. Further, it was Daphne’s birthday – the eighteenth. Besides this, it was a Thursday, the jour de sortie, when all the girls who had friends and relations were taken away into the bosom of families.’