Dear Screen-L:





The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:



Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the "King 

and I Governess"



Susan Morgan, Distinguished Professor of English at Miami University, 

is the author of Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian 

Women's Travel Writings about Southeast Asia, among other books.



http://go.ucpress.edu/Morgan



If you thought you knew the story of Anna in "The King and I", think 

again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna 

Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the 

Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. To write 

this definitive account, Susan Morgan traveled around the globe and 

discovered new information that has eluded researchers for years. 

Anna was born a poor, mixed-race army brat in India, and what 

followed is an extraordinary nineteenth-century story of savvy 

self-invention, wild adventure, and far-reaching influence. At a time 

when most women stayed at home, Anna Leonowens traveled all over the 

world, witnessed some of the most fascinating events of the Age of 

Empire, and became a well-known travel writer, journalist, teacher, 

and lecturer. She remains the one and only foreigner to have spent 

significant time inside the royal harem of Siam. She emigrated to the 

United States, crossed all of Russia on her own just before the 

revolution, and moved to Canada, where she publicly defended the 

rights of women and the working class. The book also gives an 

engrossing account of how and why Anna became an icon of American 

culture in "The King and I" and its many adaptations.



Full information about the bookis available online: 

http://go.ucpress.edu/Morgan



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