I’m Eliza Doolittle, and I’ve Made a Huge Mistake
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I’m Eliza Doolittle, and I’ve Made a Huge Mistake As a British woman in the Edwardian era, I have to admit that at times I’ve been swept up in fantasies of Gilded Age splendor. Perhaps it was the allure of evening gowns and perfumed parlors that led me to Henry Higgins’s door for speech classes. It was certainly what made me stay. But tonight, choked to the gills in Parisian satins, I can’t hel…