Anyone here ever read a Betty Neels romance novel?

[bobbieinok]

The plot is usually a romance between a very successful Dutch doctor and a plain but super kind, sweet, pleasant English girl.

In one of the stories in Eric Flint's 1632 series, a group of HS girls in Grantville (the WV town picked up and plunked down in the middle of Germany during the 30 Years War) gathers all the Neels books owned by women in the town and sells them to an entrepreneur who translates them into 17th Dutch and makes a fortune selling the books in the Netherlands.

IIRC the this event occurs in the story about the students who figure out how to manufacture a treadle sewing machine using 17th techology. That story is in either the 1st or 2nd volume of the Grantville Gazette, a series of short fiction and nonfiction stories that accompany the 1632 series.

[bobbieinok]

1. Many of the 1632 books can be read at www.freesfonline.de

Strongly recommend that you try the 1st book in Flint's series--1632!!

[iamateacher]

2. Loved the first book 1632

Never read Betty Neels....

[bobbieinok]

3. I had read several. Their use in the series shows the diversity of the series' authors