| The Dawning of the Day | |
| Author: | Elisabeth Ogilvie |
| Cover Artist: | Arthur Hawkins Jr. |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Down East |
| Release Date: | 1954 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
| Preceded By: | Rowan Head |
The Dawning of the Day is an American romantic novel written by Elisabeth Ogilvie and first published in 1954. The novel is the second Ogilvie's Bennett Island Family series of novels[1] and forms the first part of her "Lover's Trilogy."[2] [3]
Philippa Marshall, a young war widow, takes up the mantle of new school teacher on Bennett Island, a fictional lobster-fishing community on the coast of Maine. Her work leads to a romance with the handsome son of one of the town's leading families.