Family

Lecture # 6:
Women in Jose Rizals Life

Mother : Doa Teodora

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

Segunda Katigbak
Rizals Girlfriends

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 paid
court an older woman who was believed to be his
teacher.
Rizal himself did not give her name.
However, he gave two reasons for his change of
heart, namely
1.
the sweet memory of Segunda was still fresh in
his heart
2.
his father did not like the family of Miss L

Leonor Valenzuela

Leonor Valenzuela

Orang
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 and
water.

Vicenta Ybardolaza

Leonor Rivera

A girl from Pakil, Laguna

Rizal met her at Dampalit River
Townmate of Leonor Valenzuela

Leonor Rivera

Rizals second cousin true love

She was Rizals girlfriend for 11 years
Taimis nickname of Leonor
She was immortalized in Rizals novels: Maria Clara
and Paulita Gomez
Married Charles Henry Kipping, a railway engineer
favored by her mother.

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 the
following reasons:
1.
he wanted to remain loyal to Leonor
Rivera
2.
he did not want to destroy hid friendship
with Eduardo de Lete who was madly in
love with Consuelo.

Leonor Riveras house in Camiling ,Tarlac

Seiko O-Sui (O Sei San)

Gertrude Beckett

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 in
Japan.

Gertrude Beckett

Nelly Boustead

Nelly Boustead

Suzanne Jacoby

London
While he was annotating the Sucesos de las Islas
Filipinas.
They had pet names for each other:
Gettie Gertrude
Pettie/ Tottie Jose
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

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.

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.

Josephine Bracken

Josephine Bracken

Rizals dulce estrangera sweet stranger

Irish girl who grew up in Hong Kong
Rizals last love
Joe the name she gave Rizal as a sign of her affection
Francisco son of Rizal and Josephine
Not accepted in the Rizal family
Married two years after Rizals death
married Vicente Abd, a Cebuano mestizo who represented
his father's Tabacalera Company in Hong Kong.

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