Judith Ivory gives her heroine a lot of depth and nuance (uncomfy upbringing, a pretty obvious anxiety disorder, etc.) that make it easier for readers to understand why a person could be so…rough. Edwina is snobby and strict, but she’s not a two-dimensional tyrant.
I wasn’t excited to think that I was in for a book about an abusive pedagogue and her hapless victim.
And, yes, in this case, the professor is an awkward spinster, so it’s different, but still. I guess my biggest trepidation with this book, coming in, was how…unlikeable the original Professor Higgins character is. Will she succeed in passing off Mick as a viscount at her nasty cousin-the-duke’s annual ball? In this case, the linguist is a woman, Edwina Bollash, and her victim is Mick, an incorrigible Cornish ratcatcher out for a fun time. An arrogant linguistic expert decides to torture a poor lower-class human for several weeks and try to pass them off as a duchess to all of high society. Pygmalion, My Fair Lady…we know the story.
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