Girl with Basket of Plums, 1875, Émile Munier / Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Meet my visual inspiration for Miss Lily Langley. Now, who could blame Alfred for not being able to say no to such a sweet young lady?
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“You are correct,” Alfred said to Lorcan some thirty minutes later to while Georgiana and Miss Bennet strolled along the edge of the lawn while Lily chased her ball through the crochet field. “Netherfield’s library might be quieter. However, who would hold Lily’s baby while she played if I am not here?”
Lorcan laughed. “She has you completely in her pocket, does she not?”
“Completely,” Alfred agreed. Lily could ask him to do just about anything – such as sit properly on a blanket and hold her doll so that it would not feel lonely while she was playing with her brother – and he would do it.
[from Protecting Miss Darcy, Marrying Elizabeth book 6]
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).
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4 thoughts on “Girl with Basket of Plums (Emile Munier)”
Those eyes make me think of Elizabeth as a young girl! It was the “fine eyes” that captured Darcy’s attention. Little Miss Lily is another Elizabeth, just much younger!
Her eyes truly are captivating.
Oh, I agree with jbrand that this could be Elizabeth or a Darcy child with her mother’s eyes. However, as Miss Lily, I now know why Georgiana was willing to sketch her a flower and Alfred was willing to face the bees. Oh, what a precious little girl. I love this picture. She will be a terror for her father when she grows up. Fabulous find, Leenie. I can’t stop looking at her. She is adorable.
Oh, isn’t she sweet! Can you just imagine her wanting something and saying “Please, Uncle”? Who could possibly resist that with ease. 🙂
Those eyes make me think of Elizabeth as a young girl! It was the “fine eyes” that captured Darcy’s attention. Little Miss Lily is another Elizabeth, just much younger!
Her eyes truly are captivating.
Oh, I agree with jbrand that this could be Elizabeth or a Darcy child with her mother’s eyes. However, as Miss Lily, I now know why Georgiana was willing to sketch her a flower and Alfred was willing to face the bees. Oh, what a precious little girl. I love this picture. She will be a terror for her father when she grows up. Fabulous find, Leenie. I can’t stop looking at her. She is adorable.
Oh, isn’t she sweet! Can you just imagine her wanting something and saying “Please, Uncle”? Who could possibly resist that with ease. 🙂