Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century by Leonard Blusse

Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century

Leonard Blusse

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In seventeenth-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 b...

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