Bombay Anna
Subtitle: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 10, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780520252264
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; ASIA; Western Continental Europe; Asia - General; General; Western Europe - General; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography; British; Governesses; Thailand; Women authors
Table of contents: title: Introduction : A life of passing; title: Ancestors : a Methodist, a soldier, and a "Lady not entirely white"; title: A company childhood; title: Daughter of the Deccan; title: Love and Bombay, at last; title: Metamorphosis : "a life sublimated above the ordinary"; title: A teacher and a king; title: A job in a palace; title: "The noble and devoted women whom I learned to know, to esteem, and to love"; title: Settled in Bangkok; title: The paths to good-bye; title: An American writer; title: The Canadian grande dame; title: "Shall we dance?" : Anna and U.S.-Thai relations; title: Appendixes. The magnificent charter : how the British got to India; title: The women of British India