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The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess

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An edition of Bombay Anna (2008)

Bombay Anna

The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess

1 edition
  • 1 Want to read

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. - Publisher.

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English
Pages
272

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Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess
May 10, 2008, University of California Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction : A life of passing
Ancestors : a Methodist, a soldier, and a "Lady not entirely white"
A company childhood
Daughter of the Deccan
Love and Bombay, at last
Metamorphosis : "a life sublimated above the ordinary"
A teacher and a king
A job in a palace
"The noble and devoted women whom I learned to know, to esteem, and to love"
Settled in Bangkok
The paths to good-bye
An American writer
The Canadian grande dame
"Shall we dance?" : Anna and U.S.-Thai relations
Appendixes. The magnificent charter : how the British got to India
The women of British India

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Library of Congress
DS578.32.L44 M67 2008

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
272
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL10434926M
Internet Archive
bombayannarealst00morg
ISBN 10
0520252268
ISBN 13
9780520252264
LCCN
2007044084
OCLC/WorldCat
177069187
Library Thing
4834178
Goodreads
3071736

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