Retrato de Anna Harriette Leonowens
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Autor

Anna Harriette Leonowens

1831–1915

Nascimento
6 de novembro de 1831, Ahmadnagar
Morte
19 de janeiro de 1915, Montreal
Nacionalidade
Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda
Ocupação
Professora, autobiógrafo, escritora, viajante e pedagoga

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Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards; 5 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist.

She became well known with the publication of her memoirs, beginning with The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870), which chronicled her experiences in Siam (modern Thailand), as teacher to the children of the Siamese King Mongkut. Leonowens's own account was fictionalised in Margaret Landon's best-selling novel Anna and the King of Siam (1944) as well as adaptations for other media such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 musical The King and I as well as the 1999 movie Anna and the King.

During the course of her life, Leonowens also lived in Western Australia, Singapore and Penang, the United States, Canada and Germany. In later life, she was a lecturer of Indology and a suffragist. Among other achievements, she co-founded the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

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