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Lecture # 6:

Women in Jose Rizals Life

Family

Mother : Doa Teodora

9 sisters:Saturnina; Narcisa; Olimpia; Lucia; Maria;Concepcion; Josefa; Trinidad; Soledad

Rizals Girlfriends

Segunda Katigbak

Segunda Katigbak

Rizals first love

Lipa, Batangas Close friend of Olimpia Mercado Studied at La Concordia College Engaged to be married to Manuel Luz: from a

rich family in Lipa

Ms. L

Shortly, after losing Segunda Katigbak, he paidcourt an older woman who was believed to be histeacher.

Rizal himself did not give her name. However, he gave two reasons for his change of

heart, namely1. the sweet memory of Segunda was still fresh in

his heart2. his father did not like the family of Miss L

Leonor Valenzuela

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Leonor Valenzuela

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She was Rizals girlfriend while his studying in UST. She was a tall girl with a regal bearing. Rizal sent her love notes written in invisible

ink. The ink consisted of common table salt andwater.

Vicenta Ybardolaza

A girl from Pakil, Laguna Rizal met her at Dampalit River Townmate of Leonor Valenzuela

Leonor Rivera

Leonor Rivera

Rizals second cousin true love

She was Rizals girlfriend for 11 years

Taimisnickname of Leonor She was immortalized in Rizals novels: Maria Clara

and Paulita Gomez Married Charles Henry Kipping, a railway engineer

favored by her mother.Leonor Riveras house in Camiling ,Tarlac

Consuelo Ortiga y Perez Consuelo Ortiga y Perez Spain Daughter of Don Pablo Ortiga y Rey A la Seorita C o y P He suddenly backed out before the relationship

turned into a serious romance, because of thefollowing reasons:

1. he wanted to remain loyal to LeonorRivera

2. he did not want to destroy hid friendshipwith Eduardo de Lete who was madly inlove with Consuelo.

Seiko O-Sui (O Sei San)

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O Sei San Japan: Land of the Cherry Blossoms 45 days Rizal fell in love with her that he was ready to

leave the Philippines Married Alfred Charlton a year after Rizals

execution in Bagumbayan taught Rizal Japanese painting known as Su-mie

Rizal was offered a job in the Spanish legation inJapan.

Gertrude Beckett Gertrude Beckett London While he was annotating the Sucesos de las Islas

Filipinas. They had pet names for each other: GettieGertrude Pettie/ TottieJose Promised to marry her but did not materialize Rizal immediately left London for Paris because he

wanted to avoid Gertude. Made a group carving of the Beckett sisters as

souvenir

Nelly Boustead Nelly Boustead Biarittz Courted by Antonio Luna Duel Promised to marry her but he was a Catholic and

she was a Protestant Her mother did not want a physician without

sufficient funds to have his own family.

Suzanne Jacoby Suzanne Jacoby Belgium Rizal lived as tenant in their apartment because of

the high cost of living in Paris. Rizal pursued her because of his loneliness in

loosing Leonor Rivera She wrote letters to Rizal while he was in Madrid.

Josephine Bracken

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Josephine Bracken

Rizals dulce estrangerasweet stranger

Irish girl who grew up in Hong Kong Rizals last love

Joethe name she gave Rizal as a sign of her affection Franciscoson of Rizal and Josephine Not accepted in the Rizal family Married two years after Rizals death

married Vicente Abd, a Cebuano mestizo who representedhis father's Tabacalera Company in Hong Kong.

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