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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…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2014University of Wisconsin Press · 9780299298333
- Other · English · 2014The University of Wisconsin Press · 543 pages · 9780299298302
Social life and customsRacially mixed womenWomen authorsTeachersGovernessesBiographyLeonowens, anna harriette, 1834-1914Mongkut, king of siam, 1804-1868