Which Reminds Me

If you want to make a point about the miserable lives of harem women who live isolated in separate houses alone with their children, competing with multiple wives for the favors of a distant polygamous father who is rarely seen or heard of, it is not necessary to go Mormon. All we have to do is read that book by Anna Leonowens, "The English Governess at the Siamese Court," who provides a very intelligent description of that. Skip the silly musical. Stick to the historical account and we get the idea well enough. No need to belabor the point. We don't want to actually do that, only read the book which we read some time ago. It was a very interesting story, from a British point of view obviously.