AL
's father, Thomas Edwards, died several months before her birth.
Dow
gives the death date as August or September 1831.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
2
Morgan, Susan, and Anna Leonowens. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Romance of the Harem, University Press of Virginia, 1991, pp. ix - xxxix; 279.
xiii
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Family and Intimate relationships
Anna Leonowens
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, 1976.
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Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
2
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
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, 1991.
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Literary responses
Anna Leonowens
According to biographer Leslie Smith Dow
, AL
's former pupil King Chulalongkorn
asked the writer at a meeting why she had published such a scathing account of his father, King Mongkut
. She replied...
Occupation
Anna Leonowens
AL
supported herself and her children by running a small school in Singapore.
Dow
argues that it is unlikely AL
opened the school and more likely she worked as an assistant schoolmistress at a British garrison.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
5
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Occupation
Anna Leonowens
On 24 April 1845 AL
witnessed the marriage of her fourteen-year-old elder sister Eliza to thirty-eight-year-old Sergeant-Major James Millard. Support by the army ended at fifteen, so the sisters would soon be forced to leave...
Travel
Anna Leonowens
Fifteen-year-old Anna Harriett Emma Edwards (later AL
) embarked on lengthy travel in India and the Middle East with an East India Company chaplain, the Rev. George Percy Badger
, and his wife.
She later...
Timeline
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Texts
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.