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The talk at the table was full of expanding British power.... They discussed campaigns and victories, and spoke contemptuously of the 'natives,' who everyone agreed had to be put in their place periodically. 'Their place?' Anna Harriette pondered, strangely troubled. 'And what is their place in their own country?'

Margaret Landon

Margaret Landon

Margaret Landon

Born: September 7, 1903

Died: December 4, 1993 (aged 90)

Bio: Margaret Landon was an American writer best remembered for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into more than twenty languages.

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