Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth CenturyIn 17th-century Batavia, Cornelia van Nijenroode, the daughter of a geisha and a Dutch merchant in Japan, was known as "Otemba" (meaning "untamable"), which made her a heroine to modern Japanese feminists. A wealthy widow and enterprising businesswoman who had married an unsuccessful Dutch lawyer for social reasons, she discovered that just after her wedding, she and her husband were at each other's throats. Cornelia. |
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Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century Leonard Blussé No preview available - 2002 |
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