Kartini

What she did

Wrote letters arguing for girls' education and criticising forced marriage and the seclusion of women in her Javanese social world.

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.

This is Matria’s interpretation, not a quotation or personalised advice.

Works recorded in the archive

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

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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