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They wanted to open their own night school and hire a professor to teach them Spanish. To the Agustinian parish priest it was an act of defiance; to Marcelo del Pilar, Graceano Lopez Jaena and Jose Rizal, Filipino women were throwing off colonial shackles. Rizal was overjoyed that there were women like them in the Philippines. He wrote them a letter in Tagalog in February 1889. | They wanted to open their own night school and hire a professor to teach them Spanish. To the Agustinian parish priest it was an act of defiance; to Marcelo del Pilar, Graceano Lopez Jaena and Jose Rizal, Filipino women were throwing off colonial shackles. Rizal was overjoyed that there were women like them in the Philippines. He wrote them a [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oBSbHBEn15AqspP9p7TiHJgNYjCugLOY/preview letter in Tagalog] in February 1889. | ||
[https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Aurea_Tanchangco_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Elisea Tantoco Reyes'''] (1873) and her younger sister, '''Juana''' (1874) were daughters of Gobernadorcillo Jose Tiongson Reyes, a reformist constantly harassed by the Spanish colonial government. | [https://maloloscityvirtuallibrary.com/wikimalolos/index.php/Aurea_Tanchangco_(Women_of_Malolos) '''Elisea Tantoco Reyes'''] (1873) and her younger sister, '''Juana''' (1874) were daughters of Gobernadorcillo Jose Tiongson Reyes, a reformist constantly harassed by the Spanish colonial government. |