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Informationen zum Autor Alfred Habegger is professor emeritus of English at the University of Kansas! USA. His previous biographies are The Father: A Life of Henry James! Sr. and the highly acclaimed My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson . Klappentext A brave British widow goes to Siam and-by dint of her principled and indomitable character-inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. But who was Leonowens and why did her story take hold? Alfred Habegger! an award-winning biographer! draws on the archives of five continents to disclose the complex person behind the mask and the troubling facts behind the myth. Zusammenfassung A scrupulous and unprecedented investigation into the life of Anna Leonowens--who taught the king of Siam's children in the 1860s--that also ponders the perfect fit between Leonowens's mythic self-invention and the New World's innocent dream of peacefully spreading democracy.
About the author
Alfred Habegger is professor emeritus of English at the University of Kansas. His previous biographies are
The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. and the highly acclaimed
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. He lives in northeast Oregon.
