Perhaps the most famous governess of all time, Anna Leonowens is better known as 'Anna' of The King and I than for her literary achievements. She was an enterprising and independent world traveller—arguably a Victorian example of a hybrid colonial subjectivity—whose fictionalised memoirs and stories based on her time in Siam received substantial attention in her lifetime. Admired in their time for their anti-slavery rhetoric, they have recently drawn attention to the complex relationship between European women and empire. A public speaker, Anna Leonowens also produced other travel writing, journalism, and art criticism.