The English Governess at the Siamese Court / Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
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"A work of Anna Harriette Leonowens. Enjoy it! 1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam. The king wished to give his 39 wives and concubines and 82 children a modern Western education on scientific secular lines, which earlier missionaries’ wives had not provided. Leonowens sent her daughter Avis to school in England, and took her son Louis with her to Bangkok. She succeeded Dan Beach Bradley, an American missionary, as teacher to the Siamese court. Leonowens served at court until 186...
Chapters (39)
- THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
- TO MRS. KATHERINE S. COBB.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- I. ON THE THRESHOLD.
- II. A SIAMESE PREMIER AT HOME.
- III. A SKETCH OF SIAMESE HISTORY.
- IV. HIS EXCELLENCY'S HAREM AND HELPMEET.
- V. THE TEMPLES OF THE SLEEPING AND THE EMERALD IDOLS.
- VI. THE KING AND THE GOVERNESS.
- VII. MARBLE HALLS AND FISH-STALLS.
- VIII. OUR HOME IN BANGKOK
- IX. OUR SCHOOL IN THE PALACE.
- X. MOONSHEE AND THE ANGEL GABRIEL.
- XI. THE WAYS OF THE PALACE.
- XII. SHADOWS AND WHISPERS OF THE HAREM.
- XIII. FÂ-YING, THE KING'S DARLING.
- XIV. AN OUTRAGE AND A WARNING.
- XV. THE CITY OF BANGKOK.
- XVI. THE WHITE ELEPHANT.
- XVII. THE CEREMONIES OF CORONATION.
- XVIII. THE QUEEN CONSORT.
- XIX. THE HEIR-APPARENT.—ROYAL HAIR-CUTTING.
- XX. AMUSEMENTS OF THE COURT.
- XXI. SIAMESE LITERATURE AND ART.
- XXII. BUDDHIST DOCTRINE, PRIESTS, AND WORSHIP.
- COMMON MAXIMS OF THE PRIESTS OF SIAM.
- XXIII. CREMATION.
- "THE NOTIFICATION
- XXIV. CERTAIN SUPERSTITIONS.
- XXV. THE SUBORDINATE KING
- XXVI. THE SUPREME KING: HIS CHARACTER AND ADMINISTRATION.
- "NOTICE.
- "S.P.P.M. MONGKUT:
- "VERY PRIVATE POST SCRIPT.
- XXVII. MY RETIREMENT FROM THE PALACE.
- XXVIII. THE KINGDOM OF SIAM.
- XXIX. THE RUINS OF CAMBODIA.—AN EXCURSION TO THE NAGHKON WATT.
- XXX. THE LEGEND OF THE MAHA NAUGKON
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