The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Author: Anna Harriette Leonowens Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This 1870 memoir, which was the basis for the musical The King and I, vividly recounts the experiences of Anna Harriette Leonowens, who served as a governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam and as translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to her role, and her writings convey a heartfelt interest in the lives, legends, and languages of Siam’s rich and poor. She also tells of how she and the king often disagreed on matters domestic—this was the first time King Mongkut had met a woman who dared to contradict him, and the governess found the very idea of male domination intolerable. Her exchanges with His Majesty on topics like grammar, charity, slavery, politics, and religion add much to her diary’s rich, cross-cultural spirit and its East-meets-West appeal.