What is Anna Leonowens?
'''Anna Leonowens''' was an [[Anglo-Indian people|Anglo-Indian]] [[woman]] who was hired by [[Mongkut]], [[King]] of [[Siam]] to teach his children. She later moved to [[Canada]] and became a [[Suffragette]]. She died in [[Montreal]]. Leonowens wrote a [[memoir]] about teaching Mongkut’s children in 1870. Then in 1944, a woman named [[Margaret Landon]] decided to write a [[novel]] called [[Anna and the King of Siam]] based on it. It inspired the movie [[Anna and the King of Siam (movie)|Anna and the King of Siam]] which came out in 1946. In 1951, [[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] wrote a [[Musical theater|Musical]] called [[The King and I]] based on Leonowens’ life and book.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Habegger |title=Masked: The Life of Anna Leonowens |url=https://archive.org/details/maskedlifeofanna0000habe |year=2014 |page=[https://archive.org/details/maskedlifeofanna0000habe/page/417 417]}}</ref><ref>Morgan, ''Bombay Anna'', pp23–25, 240–242.</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Leonowens, Anna}} [[Category:1831 births]] [[Category:1915 deaths]] [[Category:19th-century British people]] [[Category:British autobiographers]] [[Category:British feminists]] [[Category:British teachers]] [[Category:British writers]] [[Category:Suffragettes]] {{Bio-stub}}