Kartini

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Impact and significance

Published after her death, the letters carried those arguments to readers beyond her correspondents and became an important reference in Indonesian debates about women's education.

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Works in the archive

• Letters of a Javanese Princess (Door Duisternis tot Licht, 1911)

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Sources and access

• Letters of a Javanese Princess, translated by Agnes Louise Symmers, Project Gutenberg edition
• Kartini, Raden Adjeng. Letters of a Javanese Princess. Trans. Agnes Louise Symmers, 1920 (public domain).Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.

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