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Letters of a Javanese Princess, Raden Adjeng Kartini, translated from Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers, 1899-1904, Indonesia, LETTERS

"...Kartini's goal was education for Javanese girls, a radical thought at the time and at odds with tenets of her Muslim religion. But as envisioned by Kartini, education was the way to "set the rice upon the table for every Javanese."..."

(H.S., p. 49)