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

ISBN: 0195888979

ISBN13: 9780195888973

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

The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok (1870) vividly recounts the experiences of one Anna Harriette Leonowens as governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam, English teacher for his entire royal family, and translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to these roles, and her writings convey a heartfelt interest...

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Rated 4 stars
Fact or fiction? We will never know for sure. Worth reading

Anna Leonowens is a controversial figure even now. Her name may not even have really been Leonowen (but the more common Welsh Owens), her husband not dead from heatstroke in a tiger hunt, but from drink, and not a British army officer at all. Nevertheless, her account of her time in Siam as the royal governess is ever popular and fascinating reading.Anna wrote several books, The Romance of the Harem being another. Both this...

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Rated 4 stars
Colonial Bias

Probably one of the strangest things about my reading of The English Governess at the Siamese Court, was the location in which I found the book. I was rummaging through the books at the Asia Book Store on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok, looking for mindless mysteries to pass the time between tailor fittings. I was astonished to find a copy in Bangkok, knowing the Thai feelings toward Anna Leonowens. All I can say about the...

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Rated 5 stars
Amazing tale of a woman and her life as in the Royal Palace

In 1862 Anna Leonowens went to Bangkok with her child, Louis, to teach the royal children in English and western customs and ettiquette. She spent five and a bit more than one half years there. THis book is quite different from her other book (The Romance of the Harem) because it is written simply as a travel account. Se does reproach the king and share the prejudice of the day but the king is less slandered. She...

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