Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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Leslie Smith Dow
Standard Name: Dow, Leslie Smith
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. 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 | 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... |
| 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. |
| 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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Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.