Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
Bagnères de Bigorre – Le Casino, Henri de Montaut [Public domain] This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse as part of a cooperation project with Wikimédia France.
The dresses in this image are obviously not Regency gowns, however, I think this gives a good representation of the busyness of the ball which Wes is attending.
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“That young woman across the way. The one next to the silver-haired matron with the blue fan. She’s pretty, is she not?”
“Do not attempt to change the subject,” Langley grumbled but then added, “Yes, I do believe she is. I’ve never seen her before.”
“You should seek an introduction. I had thought to, but I have duties to perform tonight before I am allowed to sneak back to my bed. My blasted head keeps hurting.”
I chose today’s music because when I was touring Uniacke Estate Museum this past Saturday (Yes, I was there again 🙂 ), there was a piece of music Schubert on the music stand in the sitting room. This tour was a special, limited-number tour in which the ropes were down and we were guided into the rooms and behind closed doors and given the chance to see things up close and from different angles. We even got to peek inside drawers and cupboards.
Published to YouTube by J.J.Burred on February 6, 2017.
Here is the music stand with the music which was right next to the early 1800s piano and then on the other side of the piano were several music books.
We also visited Sherbrooke Village, a Victorian village, at the start of the week.
Between the two trips, I spent some time in bed and visiting therapists because, over the previous weekend, my hip began giving me some trouble and continued to worsen. (I think it was one walk up a steep gravelly path too many 🙂 ). Continue reading Music Monday: Schubert – Ständchen (Serenade)
Welcome to a new week. This week, the blog will be sparse as I took a couple of days off last week and will be taking a few more this week so that I can go do some fun stuff with my husband before he heads back to work.
Published to YouTube by LadySweet321 on November 6, 2011
Photo taken by Leenie Brown during a tour of Uniacke Estate Museum Park, July 1, 2019. [Clicking the image will take you to the museum’s website. ]
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Fatherly advice from Richard John Uniacke (1753-1830) to his son James (1799-1858). [Image found on Uniacke Estate Museum Park’s Facebook page. Used with permission. Clicking image will take you to the museum’s Facebook page. ]
I thought these images went well together and with this chapter as we are in a library and it appears Wes is taking his father's advice. While his father's advice was not the same as in the letter above, I did think the subject of that letter was appropriate for this story, don't you? I also wonder if Mr. Richard John Uniacke wrote his advice to his son at that desk or not. :)
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“Please, grant me your friendship so that I can prove to you that I am a better man than Wickham.”
Her left brow once again arched skeptically.
“I have not been to Sally’s since before I arrived in Hertfordshire.”
She had not expected him to share such information with her. It was startling and caused her cheeks to flush.
“I know it is not proper to discuss such things,” he said before she could inform him that he should not be sharing such things with her.
[from Persuading Miss Mary, book 4 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]
A pained expression created a great furrow between Grace’s eyes. “Then, how is one ever to know if one is in love enough to marry?”
“That is an excellent question,” Roger replied, turning to Walter. “Do you have an explanation? You always had some reply when we pondered such impossible things in school.”
[from Her Secret Beau, Touches of Austen Book 3]
Published to YouTube by TheAlena31 on February 7, 2011.
Today marks the beginning of my husband’s vacation time, which means a reduced number of work hours for both him and me. There will be a full week of blog posts this week, but next week the blog will be rather bare with only a Monday post.
The song title for the video today, I think, goes well with both tomorrow’s chapter of Grace’s story and the excerpt from a previously published, currently being updated book at the end of this post because only time will tell how each of these situations is going to work out. (They will work out. That’s not the question really. It’s more how will they work out.)
