Intro to Van Eyck (Sarah Jeffrey)

We are starting a new month of Mondays and a new theme for these posts. This month I will be sharing music that could have been played by Georgiana, and I’ll be pairing every song selection with a quote from some book in which Georgiana has either been the heroine or has been more than just a walk on.

Today, the video is different than any I have shared before. While this video contains music, it is really a music lesson. I thought it might be fun to learn about a composer from well before Georgiana’s time period. If you choose to listen to the video, you can do as I did pretend you are Georgiana sitting under the tutelage of a music master that Darcy has hired for her. 😉 (We know she played the piano, but she might have played more instruments than that. I can see a recorder showing up in some story of mine in the future. 🙂 )

The following excerpt is from Enticing Miss Darcy in which Georgiana is nervously entering her first season.



While most of the books in my Dash of Darcy and Companions collection of Pride and Prejudice inspired stories have one companion story, Unravelling Mr. Darcy has two companions. Enticing Miss Darcy is the second companion story. (Becoming Entangled is the first companion story.)

Georgiana is the heroine in this story, and Jack Ralston (a character I created) is the hero who has found himself relegated to the position of good friend. However, with a little help from various friends and relations, Jack might be able to move out of the friend zone, and Georgiana just might learn to trust her heart.


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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).

2 thoughts on “Intro to Van Eyck (Sarah Jeffrey)”

  1. What a different blog post today. I tried to play the recorder, once. Notice I said tried. LOL! It was part of my college undergrad work in children’s education using music in the classroom. It was fun. I still have the recorder… somewhere. LOL! The lady in the video certainly made it look easy and hard at the same time. LA! I love hearing her pronounce those name. It just rolled off her tongue. I loved Enticing Miss Darcy and especially Jack Ralston. That little short-one-shot that followed Georgiana’s story was also fun. You were really sneaky with that one. Well done.

    1. I might still have a recorder around here from when I took a similar class in college. I think one of my boys used that recorder for music class back in elementary school, too. We have a family friend who can actually play a recorder and make it sound good. 🙂

      Jack is special, isn’t he? So determined that Georgiana was the lady for him after one meeting and then the work it took him to realize that goal. (I also love his friend Alistair)

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