Leonowens, Anna Harriette, 1831-1915

LC control no.	n 85802448
LC classification	PR4883.L64
Personal name heading	Leonowens, Anna Harriette, 1831-1915 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Leonowens, Anna Harriette (Crawford), 1834-1914 Mǣm ʻǢnnā, 1831-1915 ʻǢnnā, Mǣm, 1831-1915 Lēʻōnōwēn, ʻǢnnā, 1831-1915 Leon Owens, Anna, 1831-1915 Owens, Anna Leon, 1831-1915
Found in	Her The English governess at the Siamese court, 1980: t.p. (Anna Harriette Leonowens) p. 13-17 (b. Wales 1834, d. 1914) LC data base, 3-12-85 (hdg.: Leonowens, Anna Harriette (Crawford), 1834-1914) Smith Dow, L. Anna Leonowens, 1991: t.p. (Anna Leonowens) Can CIP data (Leonowens, Anna Harriet, 1831-1915) Bristowe, W.S. Lūk phūchai chư̄ Nāi ... 1991: cover (Mǣm ʻǢnnā) p. 2 (ʻǢnnā Lēʻōnōwēn) The English governess, p2000: label (Anna Leon Owens) 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) 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)