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us: Leonowens, Anna Harriette, 1831-1915



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    • us: Leonowens, Anna Harriette (Crawford), 1834-1914
    • us: Mǣm ʻǢnnā, 1831-1915
    • us: ʻǢnnā, Mǣm, 1831-1915
    • us: Lēʻōnōwēn, ʻǢnnā, 1831-1915
    • us: Leon Owens, Anna, 1831-1915
    • us: Owens, Anna Leon, 1831-1915
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    • Leonowens, Anna Harriette (Crawford), 1834-1914
  • Sources

    • found: Her The English governess at the Siamese court, 1980: t.p. (Anna Harriette Leonowens) p. 13-17 (b. Wales 1834, d. 1914)
    • found: LC data base, 3-12-85 (hdg.: Leonowens, Anna Harriette (Crawford), 1834-1914)
    • found: Smith Dow, L. Anna Leonowens, 1991: t.p. (Anna Leonowens) Can CIP data (Leonowens, Anna Harriet, 1831-1915)
    • found: Bristowe, W.S. Lūk phūchai chư̄ Nāi ... 1991: cover (Mǣm ʻǢnnā) p. 2 (ʻǢnnā Lēʻōnōwēn)
    • found: The English governess, p2000: label (Anna Leon Owens)
    • found: Morgan, S. Bombay Anna : the real story and remarkable adventures of the King and I governess, 2008: ECIP introd., etc. (Anna Leonowens; In 1976, W.S. Bristowe challenged Anna's and Margaret's versions, offering for the first time in print a darker version of Anna's biography. In his chapter "The True Story of Anna Leonowens," using East India Company records, Bristowe pointed out that Anna was born in India (not Wales), on November 26, 1831 (not 1834), the second child of a poor private named Edwards (not a major named Crawford), who died three months before she was born. Her death on Jan. 19, 1915. Anna was 83 years old)
    • found: Email from Univ. of Calif. Press, Nov. 1, 2007 (request to change dates for Anna Leonowens, based on authenticated information in S. Morgan's Bombay Anna: 1831-1915)
  • LC Classification

    • PR4883.L64
  • Change Notes

    • 1985-03-21: new
    • 2007-11-05: revised
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