Audiolibro: The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- Download 00 – Dedication and Preface audio
- Download 01 – On the Threshold audio
- Download 02 – A Siamese Premier at Home audio
- Download 03 – A Sketch of Siamese History audio
- Download 04 – His Excellency’s Harem and Helpmeet audio
- Download 05 – The Temples of the Sleeping and the Emerald Idols audio
- Download 06 – The King and the Governess audio
- Download 07 – Marble Halls and Fish-Stalls audio
- Download 08 – Our Home in Bangkok audio
- Download 09 – Our School in the Palace audio
- Download 10 – Moonshee and the Angel Gabriel audio
- Download 11 – The Ways of the Palace audio
- Download 12 – Shadows and Whispers of the Harem audio
- Download 13 – Fa-Ying, the King’s Darling audio
- Download 14 – An Outrage and a Warning audio
- Download 15 – The City of Bangkok audio
- Download 16 – The White Elephant audio
- Download 17 – The Ceremonies of Coronation audio
- Download 18 – The Queen Consort audio
- Download 19 – The Heir-Apparent; Royal Hair-Cutting audio
- Download 20 – Amusements of the Court audio
- Download 21 – Siamese Literature and Art audio
- Download 22 – Buddhist Doctrine, Priests, and Worship audio
- Download 23 – Cremation audio
- Download 24 – Certain Superstitions audio
- Download 25 – The Subordinate King audio
- Download 26 – The Supreme King: His Character and Administration, pt 1 audio
- Download 27 – The Supreme King: His Character and Administration pt 2 audio
- Download 28 – My Retirement from the Palace audio
- Download 29 – The Kingdom of Siam audio
- Download 30 – The Ruins of Cambodia; An Excursion to the Naghkon Watt audio
- Download 31 – The Legend of the Maha Naghkon audio
Géneros de audiolibros
Autor
Descripción
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 1867, a period of nearly six years, first as a teacher and later as language secretary for the king. Although her position carried great respect and even a degree of political influence, she did not find the terms and conditions of her employment to her satisfaction, and came to be regarded by the king himself as a rather difficult woman.
In 1868 Leonowens was on leave for her health in England and had been negotiating a return to the court on better terms when Mongkut fell ill and died. The king mentioned Leonowens and her son in his will, though they did not receive the legacy. The new monarch, fifteen-year-old Chulalongkorn, who succeeded his father, wrote Leonowens a warm letter of thanks for her services.
By 1869 Leonowens was in New York, and began contributing travel articles to a Boston journal, Atlantic Monthly, including ‘The Favorite of the Harem’, reviewed by the New York Times as ‘an Eastern love story, having apparently a strong basis of truth’.She expanded her articles into two volumes of memoirs, beginning with The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870), which earned her immediate fame but also brought charges of sensationalism. In her writing she casts a critical eye over court life; the account is not always a flattering one, and has become the subject of controversy in Thailand; she has also been accused of exaggerating her influence with the king.”
¿Te gustó lo que escuchaste? ¡Compártelo con tus amigos y familiares!.