Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Leonowens | 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. 26-7 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. 2 |
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... |
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