Masked The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam

Name: Masked The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
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ISBN: 9780299298302

ISBN-10: 0299298302

ISBN-13: 9780299298302

Edition: 2014

Authors: Alfred Habegger

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A brave British widow goes to Siam andby dint of her principled and indomitable characterinspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing but mostly false story first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. Three decades after her death, in the 1940s and 1950s, the story would be transformed into a powerful Western myth by Margaret Landon’s best-selling book Anna and the King of Siam and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I. But who was Leonowens and why did her story take hold? Although it has been known for some time that she was of…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 6/30/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English