ISBN: 9780520933996

Description:

• 1 online resource
• text file

Notes:

• "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Prelim.
• Electronic book.
• Electronic reproduction. Oakland University of California Press 2008 Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Contents:

• Introduction: a life of passing
• Ancestors: a Methodist, a soldier, and a "Lady not entirely white"
• A company childhood
• Daughter of the Deccan
• Love and Bombay, at last
• Metamorphosis: "a life sublimated above the ordinary"
• A teacher and a king
• A job in a palace
• "The noble and devoted women whom I learned to know, to esteem, and to love"
• Settled in Bangkok
• The paths to good-bye
• An American writer
• The Canadian grande dame
• "Shall we dance?": Anna and U.S.-Thai relations.

Control Number: 3393240

Subjects:

• British -- Thailand -- Biography.
• Governesses -- Thailand -- Biography.
• Halifax (N.S.) -- Biography.
• Leonowens, Anna Harriette, 1831-1915.
• Montréal (Québec) -- Biography.
• Multiracial people -- India -- Biography.
• Thailand -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
• Women authors -- Biography.
• Women journalists -- Biography.
• Women travelers -- Biography.

Genre: Electronic books.

Other Authors:

• OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
• Overdrive