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Bombay Anna : the real story and remarkable adventures of the King and I governess

Title: Bombay Anna : the real story and remarkable adventures of the King and I governess / Susan Morgan.
Author: Morgan, Susan, 1943-
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

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Description

xviii, 274 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

Note

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Prelim.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.

Contents

Introduction: a life of passing -- Ancestors: a Methodist, a soldier, and a "Lady not entirely white" -- A company childhood -- Daughter of the Deccan -- Love and Bombay, at last -- Metamorphosis: "a life sublimated above the ordinary" -- A teacher and a king -- A job in a palace -- "The noble and devoted women whom I learned to know, to esteem, and to love" -- Settled in Bangkok -- The paths to good-bye -- An American writer -- The Canadian grande dame -- "Shall we dance?": Anna and U.S.-Thai relations.

Call Number

JFE 08-5550

ISBN

9780520252264 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520252268 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007044084

OCLC

177069187

Author

Morgan, Susan, 1943-

Title

Bombay Anna : the real story and remarkable adventures of the King and I governess / Susan Morgan.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 08-5550

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