Anna Leonowens
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Standard Name: Leonowens, Anna
Birth Name: Ann Harriett Emma Edwards
Married Name: Ann Harriett Emma Leonowens
Self-constructed Name: Anna Leonowens
Indexed Name: Anna Harriette Leonowens
Perhaps the most famous governess of all time, 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,
also produced other travel writing, journalism, and art criticism.
is better known as Timeline
Texts
Morgan, Susan, and Anna Leonowens. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Romance of the Harem, University Press of Virginia, 1991, pp. ix - xxxix; 279.
Leonowens, Anna. Life and Travel in India. Porter and Coates, 1884.
Leonowens, Anna. “Moscow, The Holy”. The Critic, Vol.
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. Leonowens, Anna. Our Asiatic Cousins. Lothrop, 1889.
Leonowens, Anna. The English Governess at the Siamese Court. Trübner, 1870.
Leonowens, Anna. The English Governess at the Siamese Court. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Leonowens, Anna. The Romance of the Harem. J. R. Osgood, 1873.
Leonowens, Anna. The Romance of the Harem. Editor Morgan, Susan, University Press of Virginia , 1991.