Flower girl Eliza Doolittle meets Professor Henry Higgins outside the theatre, and she appears at his home the next day. She tells him she wants to learn to speak like a lady so she can start working in a flower shop instead of selling flowers in the road. He says he can have her speaking like a lady within six months. Eliza turns out to be a quick study and Higgins wins his bet. However, Eliza is terribly upset at Higgins when all is over, after all he has made her into a lady and there’s no returning to the streets.
After I finished reading the play, I watched the film My Fair Lady to see if it was a good facsimile. Though I am not a fan of musicals, I quite enjoyed it though the Eliza in the play seems to be a quick study, whereas the Eliza in the film is slower in picking up the ‘correct’ pronunciation.
I enjoyed the story more than I expected – I am not usually a fan of the classics – apart from Tess of the D’Urbdrvilles, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
Read for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2026
Prompt 49: In the 800s of the Dewy Decimal System
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