W. S. Bristowe

W. S. Bristowe

William Syer Bristowe (1901-1979), who wrote under the name W. S. Bristowe, was an English naturalist, a prolific and popular scientific writer and authority on spiders.

Late in his life he also had an unexpected but important role in discovering the true story of Anna Leonowens, the 19th century woman whose memoirs inspired a number of dramatic and fictional works, most notably the musical The King and I. Leonowens presented her own account as factual and it was accepted in the west as such, despite being strongly disputed in Thailand. In the 1970s, when Bristowe, a regular visitor to the far east in search of spiders, was researching a biography of Leonowen's son, Louis T. Leonowens, he discovered and published evidence that significant parts of the tale were in fact fictional.

External links

* [http://www.lynnsplace.freeserve.co.uk/The%20True%20Story%20of%20The%20King%20and%20I.htm The True Story of The King and I]

References

* "Comity of Spiders" (1939, 1941)
*"World of Spiders", W. S. Bristowe, 1976, ISBN 0-8008-8598-8
*"Louis and the King of Siam", W. S. Bristowe, Chatto & Windus, 1976, ISBN 0-7011-2164-5


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