Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards;[1] 5 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British[2] 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.
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.
^Habegger (2014). Masked: The Life of Anna Leonowens. p. 417.
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...
1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam, which gives a fictionalized account of the diaries of AnnaLeonowens. It stars Jodie Foster as Leonowens, an English...
through various adaptations of the story "Anna and the King of Siam." This narrative, inspired by AnnaLeonowens' memoir, vividly captures her encounters...
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Actress in a Musical: for her role as Fosca in Passion (1994–1995) and as AnnaLeonowens in The King and I (1996–1997). She was also nominated for her roles...
was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of AnnaLeonowens which eventually sold over a million...
fell on a recent arrival there, AnnaLeonowens (1831–1915), who was running a small nursery school in the colony. Leonowens was the Anglo-Indian daughter...
the Jones Beach Theater in Long Island, New York. She briefly played AnnaLeonowens in 1968, and later she played opposite Yul Brynner in a long-running...
international film career, Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as AnnaLeonowens in the musical film The King and I (1956). Her other major and best...
Leonowens is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: AnnaLeonowens (1834–1915), Indian-British travel writer, educator, and social activist...
joined the national tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I as AnnaLeonowens opposite Yul Brynner, and continued with that production when it opened...
Taste of Honey, Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle, and later on as AnnaLeonowens in The King and I. But that time with Sondheim began a collaborative...
Ivey, for which she won a Theatre World Award. In 1991 she appeared as AnnaLeonowens in the Australian production of The King and I. In December 2007, for...
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due to an insufficient number of musicals during the season. 3 Wins AnnaLeonowens from The King and I Rose from Gypsy 2 Wins Desiree Armfeldt from A Little...
the Public School (2015), p. 233 Alfred Habegger, Masked: The Life of AnnaLeonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam (2014), p. 7 Reports of the Commissioners...
(AnnaLeonowens) – British tour. Also starred Peter Wyngarde – 1973. Man and Superman (Ann Whitefield) – with Denis Quilley – 1973 The King & I (Anna Leonowens)...
Broadway production of Mary Poppins on 24 August 2010. Kelly starred as AnnaLeonowens in a production of The King and I at the Muny from 6–12 August 2012...
surroundings. Even Mrs. Leonowens, fanatical opponent of polygamy that she was, does not tell us that". Indeed, AnnaLeonowens' book The English Governess...
Breast Cancer Research Foundation. From 2000 to 2001, she starred as AnnaLeonowens in a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I at the London...
singing dubbed by others. Based on Margaret Landon's Anna and the King of Siam—the story of AnnaLeonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam...
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