Louis Thomas Gunnis Leonowens

During this period, AL gave birth to the two children who survived infancy: her daughter, Avis Annie Connybeare , followed by a son, Louis Thomas Gunnis .

In 1874 AL 's son Louis emigrated to Australia where he worked in gold mines. Seven years later he returned to Siam, where he was employed by King Chulalongkorn .

Twentieth-century responses are often critical of AL 's books, and have questioned the validity of her reports of harem life. Ian Grimble's BBC production called AL a mischief maker, a squalid little girl, ....

AL and her son Louis sailed from Singapore to Bangkok aboard the steamer Chao Phya.

Some of the more exotic and sensational elements of The English Governess, such as an incident involving human sacrifice, as well as the elliptically-narrated details of AL 's previous life, are fictional or borrowed...