Editing Anna Leonowens (section)

==Canada and Germany==
In 1878, Leonowens's daughter Avis Annie Crawford Connybeare married Thomas Fyshe, a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[bank]]er and the cashier (general manager) of the [[Bank of Nova Scotia]] in [[Halifax Regional Municipality|Halifax]], where she resided for nineteen years as she continued to travel the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7355 |title=Biography – EDWARDS, ANNA HARRIETTE – Volume XIV (1911–1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |publisher=Biographi.ca |date=24 August 1922 |access-date=24 August 2013}}</ref> This marriage ended the family's money worries. Leonowens resumed her teaching career and taught daily from 9&nbsp;am to 12 noon for an autumn half at the [[Berkeley School For Boys|Berkeley School]] of New York at 252 [[Madison Avenue (Manhattan)|Madison Avenue, Manhattan]], beginning on 5 October 1880; this was a new [[University-preparatory school|preparatory school]] for colleges and schools of science and her presence was advertised in the press.<ref>"Classified Ad 10 – No Title", ''The New York Times'' (6 October 1880), p. 7.</ref><ref>"Classified Ad 21 – No Title", ''The New York Times'' (13 October 1880), p. 9.</ref> On behalf of ''[[The Youth's Companion]]'' magazine, Leonowens visited [[Russia]] in 1881, shortly after the assassination of [[Alexander II of Russia|Tsar Alexander II]], and other European countries, and continued to publish travel articles and books. This established her position as an orientalist scholar.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Hao-Han Helen Yang |title=Authorising the Self: Race, Religion and the Role of the Scholar in Anna Leonowens' ''The English Governess at the Siamese Court'' (1870) |editor=Sue Thomas |series=Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |year=2008 |page=33}}</ref>

Having returned to Halifax, she again became involved in women's education and worked as a [[suffragist]]. She initiated a reading circle and a [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] club, and she was one of the founders of the [[Local Council of Women of Halifax]] and the Victoria School of Art and Design (now the [[Nova Scotia College of Art and Design]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dagg |first1=Anne Innis |author-link=Anne Innis Dagg |title=The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books |publisher=Wilfried Laurier University Press |year=2001 |page=167}}</ref> From 1888 to 1893, Anna Leonowens lived with her daughter Avis and her grandchildren in [[Kassel]], Germany. 
[[File:Mrs. Anna H. Leonowens and grandchildren, Montreal, QC, 1911.jpg|thumb|Leonowens in Montreal with two of her grandchildren]]
On her way back to Canada, she met her son Louis again, after nineteen years of separation. He had returned to [[Siam]] in 1881, having had become an officer in the Siamese royal [[cavalry]] and a [[teak]] trader. From his marriage to Caroline Knox — a daughter of Sir [[Thomas George Knox]], the British [[consul-general]] in Bangkok, and his Thai wife, Prang Yen<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-08|title=Second times the charm - Louis T. Leonowens|url=https://expatlifeinthailand.com/lifestyle/second-times-the-charm-louis-t-leonowens/|access-date=2021-10-26|website=Expat Life in Thailand|language=en-GB}}</ref>— he had two children, aged two and five years. After the death of his wife, he entrusted them to his mother, who took them with her to Canada, while Louis returned to Siam.{{sfnp |Morgan |2008 |p=186 }}

Anna Leonowens met Chulalongkorn again when both visited London in 1897, thirty years after she had left Siam. During this audience, the king took the opportunity to express his thanks in person, but he also voiced his dismay at the inaccuracies in Leonowens's books. According to Leonowens's granddaughter Anna Fyshe, who had accompanied her, the king asked, "Why did you write such a wicked book about my father King Mongkut? You know that you have made him utterly ridiculous". In response, according to Fyshe, Leonowens insisted that she had written "the whole truth" and that Mongkut had indeed been "a ridiculous and a cruel, wicked man".{{sfnp |Habegger |2014 |p=354 }} With her granddaughter Anna, Leonowens stayed in [[Leipzig]], Germany, until 1901. She studied Sanskrit and classical Indian literature with the renowned Indology professor [[Ernst Windisch]] of [[Leipzig University]], while her granddaughter studied piano at the [[University of Music and Theatre Leipzig#History|Royal Conservatory of Music]].{{sfnp |Morgan |2008 |pp=53, 203 }}{{sfnp |Habegger |2014 |pp=8, 90 }}

[[File:Leonowens_001.jpg|thumb|Anna Leonowens's grave at [[Mount Royal Cemetery]], Montreal]]
In 1901 she moved to [[Montreal]], Quebec, where she lectured Sanskrit at [[McGill University]]. She delivered her last lecture at the age of 78.<ref>{{Cite book |author=John Gullick |title=Adventurous Women in South-East Asia: Six Lives |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |page=142}}</ref> Anna Leonowens died on 19 January 1915, at 83 years of age.<ref>"Deaths", ''The Times'' (21 January 1915); p. 1; col A.</ref> She was interred in [[Mount Royal Cemetery]] in [[Montreal]]. The headstone identifies her as the "Beloved Wife of Major Thomas Lorne Leonowens", despite her husband never having risen beyond the rank of paymaster sergeant.{{sfnp |Habegger |2014 |p=72 }}