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The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

by Anna Harriette Leonowens

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Author
Leonowens, Anna Harriette, 1831-1915
Credits
E-text prepared by Lee Dawei, Michelle Shephard, David Moynihan, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Language
English
LoC Class
DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
Subject
Thailand -- Social life and customs
Category
Text
eBook-No.
8678
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8678
Release Date
August 1, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  2. 2.TO MRS. KATHERINE S. COBB.
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.I. ON THE THRESHOLD.
  6. 6.II. A SIAMESE PREMIER AT HOME.
  7. 7.III. A SKETCH OF SIAMESE HISTORY.
  8. 8.IV. HIS EXCELLENCY'S HAREM AND HELPMEET.
  9. 9.V. THE TEMPLES OF THE SLEEPING AND THE EMERALD IDOLS.
  10. 10.VI. THE KING AND THE GOVERNESS.
  11. 11.VII. MARBLE HALLS AND FISH-STALLS.
  12. 12.VIII. OUR HOME IN BANGKOK
  13. 13.IX. OUR SCHOOL IN THE PALACE.
  14. 14.X. MOONSHEE AND THE ANGEL GABRIEL.
  15. 15.XI. THE WAYS OF THE PALACE.
  16. 16.XII. SHADOWS AND WHISPERS OF THE HAREM.
  17. 17.XIII. FÂ-YING, THE KING'S DARLING.
  18. 18.XIV. AN OUTRAGE AND A WARNING.
  19. 19.XV. THE CITY OF BANGKOK.
  20. 20.XVI. THE WHITE ELEPHANT.
  21. 21.XVII. THE CEREMONIES OF CORONATION.
  22. 22.XVIII. THE QUEEN CONSORT.
  23. 23.XIX. THE HEIR-APPARENT.—ROYAL HAIR-CUTTING.
  24. 24.XX. AMUSEMENTS OF THE COURT.
  25. 25.XXI. SIAMESE LITERATURE AND ART.
  26. 26.XXII. BUDDHIST DOCTRINE, PRIESTS, AND WORSHIP.
  27. 27.COMMON MAXIMS OF THE PRIESTS OF SIAM.
  28. 28.XXIII. CREMATION. — "THE NOTIFICATION
  29. 29.XXIV. CERTAIN SUPERSTITIONS.
  30. 30.XXV. THE SUBORDINATE KING
  31. 31.XXVI. THE SUPREME KING: HIS CHARACTER AND ADMINISTRATION. — "NOTICE. — "S.P.P.M. MONGKUT: — "VERY PRIVATE POST SCRIPT.
  32. 32.XXVII. MY RETIREMENT FROM THE PALACE.
  33. 33.XXVIII. THE KINGDOM OF SIAM.
  34. 34.XXIX. THE RUINS OF CAMBODIA.—AN EXCURSION TO THE NAGHKON WATT.
  35. 35.XXX. THE LEGEND OF THE MAHA NAUGKON

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