Anna Leonowens
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Masked
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Author : Alfred Habegger
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2014-06-30
Masked written by Alfred Habegger and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A brave British widow goes to Siam and—by dint of her principled and indomitable character—inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. Three decades after her death, in the 1940s and 1950s, the story would be transformed into a powerful Western myth by Margaret Landon’s best-selling book Anna and the King of Siam and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I. But who was Leonowens and why did her story take hold? Although it has been known for some time that she was of Anglo-Indian parentage and that her tales about the Siamese court are unreliable, not until now, with the publication of Masked, has there been a deeply researched account of her extraordinary life. Alfred Habegger, an award-winning biographer, draws on the archives of five continents and recent Thai-language scholarship to disclose the complex person behind the mask and the troubling facts behind the myth. He also ponders the curious fit between Leonowens’s compelling fabrications and the New World’s innocent dreams—in particular the dream that democracy can be spread through quick and easy interventions. Exploring the full historic complexity of what it once meant to pass as white, Masked pays close attention to Leonowens’s midlevel origins in British India, her education at a Bombay charity school for Eurasian children, her material and social milieu in Australia and Singapore, the stresses she endured in Bangkok as a working widow, the latent melancholy that often afflicted her, the problematic aspects of her self-invention, and the welcome she found in America, where a circle of elite New England abolitionists who knew nothing about Southeast Asia gave her their uncritical support. Her embellished story would again capture America’s imagination as World War II ended and a newly interventionist United States looked toward Asia. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Regional Special Interest Boosk, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
Anna Leonowens
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Author : Leslie Smith Dow
language : en
Publisher: Porter's Lake, N.S. : Pottersfield
Release Date : 1991
Anna Leonowens written by Leslie Smith Dow and has been published by Porter's Lake, N.S. : Pottersfield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Anna And The King Of Siam
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Author : Margaret Landon
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2016-08-23
Anna And The King Of Siam written by Margaret Landon and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-23 with Fiction categories.
Based on the incredible true story of one woman’s journey to the exotic world of nineteenth-century Siam, the riveting novel that inspired The King and I. In 1862, recently widowed and with two small children to support, British schoolteacher Anna Leonowens agrees to serve as governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam (present-day Thailand), unaware that her years in the royal palace will change not only her own life, but also the future of a nation. Her relationship with King Mongkut, famously portrayed by Yul Brynner in the classic film The King and I, is complicated from the start, pitting two headstrong personalities against each other: While the king favors tradition, Anna embraces change. As governess, Anna often finds herself at cross-purposes, marveling at the foreign customs, fascinating people, and striking landscape of the kingdom and its harems, while simultaneously trying to influence her pupils—especially young Prince Chulalongkorn—with her Western ideals and values. Years later, as king, this very influence leads Chulalongkorn to abolish slavery in Siam and introduce democratic reform based on the ideas of freedom and human dignity he first learned from his beloved tutor. This captivating novel brilliantly combines in-depth research—author Margaret Landon drew from Siamese court records and Anna’s own writings—with richly imagined details to create a lush portrait of 1860s Siam. As a Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway musical and an Academy Award–winning film, the story of Anna and the King of Siam has enchanted millions over the years. It is a gripping tale of cultural differences and shared humanity that invites readers into a vivid and sensory world populated by unforgettable characters.
A Girl Called Anna
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Author : Wyndham Charles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
A Girl Called Anna written by Wyndham Charles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Authors, English categories.
Anna And The King
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Author : Margaret Landon
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 1999-12-08
Anna And The King written by Margaret Landon and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12-08 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
"Are you the lady who is to teach the royal family?" She inclined her head slightly. "I am." "Have you friends in Bangkok?" "I know no one in Bangkok at all." When Anna arrives on a crowded dock in Siam in 1862, she is afraid her friends might have been right: A country as "backward" as Siam is no place for a proper young Englishwoman. And when she meets the king, who is unbearably headstrong and arrogant, she is quite positive she has made a huge mistake. But then Anna begins her post as governess to the royal children (all sixty-seven of them!), and it's not long before they taught her to love the beauty and excitement of this strange new land. Suddenly she has more friends than she could ever hope for. Yet in the kingdom of Siam, there are rules Anna cannot accept. And as her relationship with the king grows, the conflicts between them grow too. If they are to overcome their differences, Anna and the King will have to meet somewhere between East and West….
The English Governess At The Siamese Court
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Author : Anna Harriette Leonowens
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-08-27
The English Governess At The Siamese Court written by Anna Harriette Leonowens and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-27 with categories.
1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam. The king wished to give his 39 wives and concubines and 82 children a modern Western education on scientific secular lines, which earlier missionaries' wives had not provided. Leonowens sent her daughter Avis to school in England, and took her son Louis with her to Bangkok. She succeeded Dan Beach Bradley, an American missionary, as teacher to the Siamese court. Leonowens served at court until 1867, a period of nearly six years, first as a teacher and later as language secretary for the king. Although her position carried great respect and even a degree of political influence, she did not find the terms and conditions of her employment to her satisfaction, and came to be regarded by the king himself as a rather difficult woman. In 1868 Leonowens was on leave for her health in England and had been negotiating a return to the court on better terms when Mongkut fell ill and died. The king mentioned Leonowens and her son in his will, though they did not receive the legacy. The new monarch, fifteen-year-old Chulalongkorn, who succeeded his father, wrote Leonowens a warm letter of thanks for her services. By 1869 Leonowens was in New York, and began contributing travel articles to a Boston journal, Atlantic Monthly, including 'The Favorite of the Harem', reviewed by the New York Times as 'an Eastern love story, having apparently a strong basis of truth'.She expanded her articles into two volumes of memoirs, beginning with The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870), which earned her immediate fame but also brought charges of sensationalism. In her writing she casts a critical eye over court life; the account is not always a flattering one, and has become the subject of controversy in Thailand; she has also been accused of exaggerating her influence with the king."
Bombay Anna
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Author : Susan Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-07-07
Bombay Anna written by Susan Morgan and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. To write this definitive account, Susan Morgan traveled around the globe and discovered new information that has eluded researchers for years. Anna was born a poor, mixed-race army brat in India, and what followed is an extraordinary nineteenth-century story of savvy self-invention, wild adventure, and far-reaching influence. At a time when most women stayed at home, Anna Leonowens traveled all over the world, witnessed some of the most fascinating events of the Age of Empire, and became a well-known travel writer, journalist, teacher, and lecturer. She remains the one and only foreigner to have spent significant time inside the royal harem of Siam. She emigrated to the United States, crossed all of Russia on her own just before the revolution, and moved to Canada, where she publicly defended the rights of women and the working class. The book also gives an engrossing account of how and why Anna became an icon of American culture in The King and I and its many adaptations.
The English Governess At The Siamese Court
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Author : Anna Harriette Leonowens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
The English Governess At The Siamese Court written by Anna Harriette Leonowens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with British categories.
Fighting For Women S Rights
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Author : Moushumi Chakrabarty
language : en
Publisher: Amazing Stories
Release Date : 2005-09-13
Fighting For Women S Rights written by Moushumi Chakrabarty and has been published by Amazing Stories this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From her time growing up in India and the Royal Court of Siam, Anna (made famous as the "I" in the movie The King and I) developed a fiercely independent nature that she brought with her to North America. As a well-known author, Anna toured America landing in Halifax where she single-handedly created an art school for girls - later to become the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She devoted most of her life to the fight for women's rights.
Busted
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Author : Lance Banbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Busted written by Lance Banbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Governesses categories.