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The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok - Oxford in Asia Paperbacks
Author: Anna Harriette Leonowens
Originally published in 1870, The English Governess at the Siamese Court recounts the story of the five and a half years that Anna Leonowens, a young and adventurous Englishwoman, spent as a governess for the children of King Mongkut of Siam. Leonowens focuses on the fact that she and the King did not see eye to eye in the domestic sphere: for ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195888973
ISBN-10: 0195888979
Publication Date: 3/17/1989
Pages: 321
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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This is the true story that inspired the king and I and Anna & the king. Very interesting. Actually7 pretty amazing given the culture of the East.
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