The English Governess at the Siamese Court

Name: The English Governess at the Siamese Court
Author: Anna Harriette Leonowens

by Anna Harriette Leonowens

EN·~9 hours

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Full title

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

Language

Duration

~9 hours (556K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2005-08-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Leonowens, Anna Harriette, 1831-1915 -- Homes and haunts -- Thailand Mongkut, King of Siam, 1804-1868 British -- Thailand -- History -- 19th century Governesses -- Thailand -- Biography Thailand -- Social life and customs

About the author

Anna Harriette Leonowens

1831–1915

Best known as the English-language teacher at the Siamese court, she turned her unusual life into bestselling memoirs that later inspired stage and screen classics. Her story sits at the crossroads of travel writing, empire, and the complicated making of a public legend.

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