Her mother, Mary Anne (Glasscock)
, was possibly born to an Indian mother and a British father in Bengal. She died in 1852.
Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus.
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Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield.
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Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research.
166: 220
Biographer Leslie Smith Dow
gives the alternate form of Glasscott.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield.
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Wealth and Poverty
Anna Leonowens
At the time of her first husband's death, AL
's mother
was in danger of financial ruin as the accommodation and support she and her daughters (one unborn) received in the garrison were to be...
