To think, with the halter around my neck, for one minute, of La Belle Eliza
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PICKERING. We're always talking Eliza. HIGGINS. Teaching Eliza. PICKERING. Dressing Eliza. MRS. HIGGINS. What! HIGGINS. Inventing new Elizas. More than one person asked me, over the years, whether Eliza was named for Eliza Doolittle. Certainly more people asked me that than ever asked me if she was named for Almanzo Wilder’s dominating older sister Eliza Jane, which is a better guess. The implication was she was badly educated and needed an elocution course and a new wardrobe as well, which is right but rude, or that she could have been played by Audrey Hepburn past the age of six months, which is ridiculous. They expected to be told Yes but they had to learn to love being told No.
To think, with the halter around my neck, for one minute, of La Belle Eliza
To think, with the halter around my neck, for…
To think, with the halter around my neck, for one minute, of La Belle Eliza
PICKERING. We're always talking Eliza. HIGGINS. Teaching Eliza. PICKERING. Dressing Eliza. MRS. HIGGINS. What! HIGGINS. Inventing new Elizas. More than one person asked me, over the years, whether Eliza was named for Eliza Doolittle. Certainly more people asked me that than ever asked me if she was named for Almanzo Wilder’s dominating older sister Eliza Jane, which is a better guess. The implication was she was badly educated and needed an elocution course and a new wardrobe as well, which is right but rude, or that she could have been played by Audrey Hepburn past the age of six months, which is ridiculous. They expected to be told Yes but they had to learn to love being told No.