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Anna Leonowens

Anna Leonowens, English travel writer, educator, social activist

(1834 - 1914)

Full name: Anna Harriette Emma Edwards Leonowens. Her experiences were fictionalized in Margaret Landon’s 1944 Anna and the King of Siam, as well as in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1951 musical The King and I.