Good morning!
I’m glad you stopped by. I am a Catholic young woman (somewhere between the age of Marianne Dashwood and the age of Anne Elliot) who enjoys period dramas, oldies music, vintage thingamajigs, homemaking, crafting, playing the violin, reading classics, and writing fiction. At the moment my blog is mostly focused on classic books and period drama (with a little vintageness thrown in) but be prepared to see anything here from gluten-free recipes to writing snippets to prayers or poems – anything from starlight to saucepans, as it were.
I love the quiet, unobtrusive, simple joys of life…sipping a cup of tea while reading a good book, puttering in the kitchen with vintage jazz playing, taking the time to formulate and articulate obscure and detailed opinions about fictional characters. I want this blog to be a celebration of those simple pleasures – and maybe, just maybe, to be one of those simple pleasures for my readers.
Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend is, I believe, one of the first pieces of real literature that I fell in love with, and in honor of that fact I go by the name Lizzie Hexam on this blog. (She is a character contained within Our Mutual Friend, in case that wasn’t clear.) I refer to my brothers on this blog as Wemmick, Herbert, Mortimer, and Noddy (all names from either Our Mutual Friend or Great Expectations).
Please stick around and enjoy! (Or if you’d rather just leave, you could do that too. Whichever you prefer.)
Toodle-pip!
You play violin!?! So do I!!!🎻🎻🎻
Oh, how neat! What are some of your favorite things to play?
You’re a violinist? What a coincidence! I am too! What are you working on at the moment?
(Also, I love your blog)
How cool! We seem to be a common breed 😉 Well, I hadn’t been working on much of anything new in a while, but I was recently inspired to try picking up “Csárdás” by Vittorio Monti (here’s a beautiful version of it) – I had started learning it with my teacher, but then I stopped lessons and was rather intimidated to keep learning it on my own! Hopefully it’s not too ambitious of a goal. What are you working on currently?
(Oh, thank you! <3)
Oh, that’s a lovely piece! I hope you succeed. 🙂
As for myself—well, that’s a bit complicated. As for my solo literature, I’m working on Mendelssohn’s violin concerto in b minor (you know, the famous one?), Bach Partita No. 2, and various Paganini caprices, but I’m also doing various chamber music things (Beethoven’s “Ghost” Trio and Rachmaninoff’s Trio Elagiaque), and a ton of orchestra—I’ll take pity on you and not list everything out. So yeah, I guess you could say I’m busy!
Ahh, the Mendelssohn and Bach are gorgeous! I do love those slightly angsty pieces, hehe. I’ll bet your chamber music/orchestra is a lot of fun…I used to be in orchestra too, and I know it can be a lot of work (worth it, though, of course ;)).
Indeed! Angst is a requirement in romantic music… just look at Tchaikovsky (and Rachmaninoff, and—okay, basically everyone).
It is indeed quite fun ;D We actually have a concert today…
Yes indeed…which is why I have such a fondness for the romance period!
Ooh, I hope it went well! (It’s rather too late to wish you good luck, I suppose :P)
Yes indeed! (Except perhaps for a young idiot named Werther…)
Thank you! It did 🙂
Hehe, very true…must make exception for those of the Werther variety who mix idiocy with their romanticism 😉
Quite true!