tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post3718524289735837247..comments2024-03-25T09:03:39.020-07:00Comments on The Uncrushable Jersey Dress: An Ideal Wife--RepriseBetty Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-43485895923210048762013-12-05T13:02:12.594-08:002013-12-05T13:02:12.594-08:00An Ideal Wife – not written by TGB? I am afraid I ...An Ideal Wife – not written by TGB? I am afraid I cannot follow your reasoning. <br /><br /><i><a href="https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=salisbury+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&num=100" rel="nofollow"><b>Salisbury</b></a>/<a href="https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22answering+machine%22+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&num=100" rel="nofollow"><b>answering machines</b></a>/<a href="https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22mobile+phone%22+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&num=100" rel="nofollow"><b>mob</b></a><a href="https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=pocket+%22phone+from%22+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&num=100" rel="nofollow"><b>ile</b></a> <a href="https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22phone+out+of+his+pocket%22+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&num=100" rel="nofollow"><b>phones</b></a> at odds with Salisbury/unbelievably rich GPs/provincial medical men & <a href="https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=patient+%22middle+east%22+inauthor:neels+inauthor:betty&num=100" rel="nofollow"><b>Middle East</b></a>ern mystery clients</i><br /><br />You lost me there. Perhaps a little too cryptic for me. Could you explain please?<br /><br />I am afraid <b>all of the heroes are rich.</b> (Old money, wisely invested, of course, + income.) According to Betty van den Betsy’s post <i>Betty by the Numbers: <a href="http://everyneelsthing.blogspot.de/2012/02/betty-by-numbers-heros-jobs.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Hero’s Jobs</b></a></i> <b>15%</b> of the heroes are <b>GPs</b>, by the way.<br /><br />In real life, some GPs are not just family doctors but specialize in some area as well. I remember <a href="http://everyneelsthing.blogspot.de/2013/05/stars-through-mist-reprise.html" rel="nofollow">mentioning</a> a Dutch GP who specializes in tropical diseases, for example. Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-65481670477969521812013-12-04T06:43:29.553-08:002013-12-04T06:43:29.553-08:00Should read:
Vocabulary too low brow, too many re...Should read:<br /><br />Vocabulary too low brow, too many references to romantic genres . . . <br /><br />Sorry!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-61067642784074727842013-12-04T06:40:14.970-08:002013-12-04T06:40:14.970-08:00I thought BN hadn't written it!
Why? Vocabula...I thought BN hadn't written it!<br /><br />Why? Vocabularytoo low brow, too many references to romantics genres and works, Salisbury/answering machines/mobile phones at odds with Salisbury/unbelievably rich GPs/provincial medical men & Middle Eastern mystery clients . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-71619728046925836772012-09-18T22:13:07.865-07:002012-09-18T22:13:07.865-07:00I am re-reading this one right now. I'm at the...I am re-reading this one right now. I'm at the part where they are just leaving Scotland. <br /><br /><br />Love all the characters in this one. So fresh. <br /><br />I love the aunt Kitty who married the first time in her late forties and was slender and elegant yet forsook it all for the love of her scottish bearded husband. so lovely. And poor hero looked "bleak" when he heard it and said what a lucky man her uncle was and how all men wished for a wife like that. <br /><br />so cool. <br /><br />Betty FrancescaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-17914004549239082062012-09-18T11:20:11.040-07:002012-09-18T11:20:11.040-07:00hahahaha...cheap but true! Scotland feels so drea...hahahaha...cheap but true! Scotland feels so dreary in that one!Keirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12334172370385784966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-56068361666971493432012-09-18T08:43:23.440-07:002012-09-18T08:43:23.440-07:00I think that Betty Keira's opening shot agains...I think that Betty Keira's opening shot against <i>Heaven Is Gentle</i> is pretty cheap considering that she manipulated the March Madness brackets into cheating it out of a slam-dunk win.<br /><br />*heeheeBetty JoDeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552570070311742671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-61818496001588822362012-09-18T08:40:49.822-07:002012-09-18T08:40:49.822-07:00Ermentrude--I love Ermentrude.Ermentrude--I love Ermentrude.Betty JoDeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552570070311742671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-50844537393972818702012-09-17T12:28:19.412-07:002012-09-17T12:28:19.412-07:00BN uses the "forthrightness" of some of ...BN uses the "forthrightness" of some of her heroines to say things they "shouldn't" to the hero. <br /><br />I believe, that in romance literature, and especially in BNeelsdom, that "forthrightness" indicates that the heroine is very very comfortable with the hero and already feels akin to him, as if she had known him all her life. <br /><br />She used the same personality with that girl who knit during the long hours as night receptionist at a London hospital. Remember her? <br /><br />Betty FrancescaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-46332076588559716572012-09-17T12:23:19.589-07:002012-09-17T12:23:19.589-07:00I love love love this one too.
It's one of m...I love love love this one too. <br /><br />It's one of my top faves because I always remember that picnic!!!<br /><br />I love that she made almost all the food for the picnic herself, from scratch. <br /><br />I love that she plans things, a la Sophy by Georgette Heyer. <br /><br />I love that she has money and uses it to make herself look pretty and lives a life that is even more feminine than before. <br /><br />I love her spirit and how she tries to conquer and fight the "evil" bad stuff going on in the relationships around her. And all with the right spirit. Very courageous of her. <br /><br />But most of all I love the plot of the picnic and using it all the time in all my little "stories". <br /><br />mwah<br /><br />Betty FrancescaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-4233692036491237992012-09-17T09:29:53.915-07:002012-09-17T09:29:53.915-07:00I love the picnic in this one -- she decides to en...I love the picnic in this one -- she decides to end it before tea-time, as tea in a flask never tastes right. There are a lot of great little details like that in this one, including Biddy's burnt offerings on headache day, Louisa's perambulations 'round Salisbury as she furnishes her flat, and her maneuverings of Percy and her lazy stepmother.<br /><br />I do believe that telling a colleague (he wasn't yet a friend) that his fiancee is all wrong for him is more rude than forthright, and that bothers me about a few of the later-era novels, but Louisa mostly makes up for it with a kind heart. She and Thomas really do get to a very friendly footing that bodes well for a happy marriage.Betty van den Betsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462647734423787992noreply@blogger.com