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Rizal in London

Rizal lived in London from May 1888 to March 1889 for several reasons: to improve his English, study Morga's book on Philippine history, and continue his fight against Spanish tyranny from a safe place. While there, he completed annotating Morga's book, wrote articles defending the Filipinos, and had a romance with Gertrude Beckett. He received both good and bad news from home, was chosen president of the Filipino organization La Solidaridad, and contributed writings before sadly leaving London.

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Rizal in London

Rizal lived in London from May 1888 to March 1889 for several reasons: to improve his English, study Morga's book on Philippine history, and continue his fight against Spanish tyranny from a safe place. While there, he completed annotating Morga's book, wrote articles defending the Filipinos, and had a romance with Gertrude Beckett. He received both good and bad news from home, was chosen president of the Filipino organization La Solidaridad, and contributed writings before sadly leaving London.

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RIZAL IN LONDON

1888-1889
Chapter 14
After visiting the United States Rizal Lived in
London From May , 1888 to March, 1889.
3 Reasons :
• To improve his knowledge of the English Language
• To study and annotate Morga’s Sucesos de Las Islas
Filipinas, a rare copy which he heard to be available in
the British Museum.

Antonio e Morga
• London was a safe place for him carry on
his flight against Spanish tyranny.
He engage in
• Filipiniana Studies
• Completed annotating Morga’s book
• Wrote many articles for La Solodaridad in
defense of his people against Spanish critics
• Penned famous letter to the young women
of Malolos
• Carried on his voluminous correspondence
with Blumentritt and relatives
• Had a romance with Gretrude Beckett.
TRIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Rizal entertained the American and European
passengers with his marvelous skill with the
yoyo as a offensive weapon.
Rizal arrived at He spent his night at
Liverpool, Adelphia Hotel
England on
May 24, 1888
He stayed as a guest
at the home of Dr.
Antonio Ma. Regidor,
an excile of 1872 and
a practicing lawyer in
London.
By the end of
May, found a
modest boarding
place at No. 37
Chalcot, Crescent,
Primrose Hill.

He was a boarder
of the Backett
Family.
• Mr. Beckett, organist
of St. Paul’s church
• Mrs. Beckett (his wife)
• 2 sons
• 4 daughters
• the oldest of the
Beckett sisters was
Gertrude, called
“Grettie” or “Tottie” ny
his friends
Rizal came to Dr.
Reinhold Rost , the
librarian of the
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and an
authority on Malayan
language and
customs.
NEWS FROM HOME, BAD NEWS
• Persecution of the Filipino patriots who signed the “ Anti-friar
Petitio 1888”.
• Persecution of the Calamba Tenants
• Furios attacks on Rizal by Senatos Salmanca and Vida in the
Spanish Cortes and Wenceslao Retana and Pablo Feced in
Spanish newspaper.
• A friend of rizal, Laureano Viado , a medical student at the
University of Santo tomas , was arrested an jailed in Bilibid prison
because of the copies of Noli that were found in his house.
• Rizal’s brother- in law , Manuel T. Hidalgo, Husband of Saturnina
was exiled by Governor General Weyler to Bohol without due
process of law.
NEWS FROM HOME, GOOD NEWS
• Rev. Vicente Grcia’s defense of the Noli against
the attacks of the friars
• Rizal heard this good news from Mariano Ponce.
• Later, on January 7, 1891, he wrote to Father
Garcia, expressing his personal thanks.
ANNOINTING MORGA’S BOOK
• The greatest achievement of Rizal on London was
the anointing of Morga’s book, Sucessos de Las
Isla Filipinas which was published in Mexico, 1609.

• Rizal Spent ,many days in the reading room of the


British Museum poring over the pages of this book
and laboriously reading the old histories of the
Philippines.
SHORT VISIT TO PARIS AND SPAIN
• Early in September 1888, Rizal visited Paris for a
week in order to search for more historical
materials Bibliotheque Nationale.

• On December 11, 1888, Rizal went to Madrid


and Barcelona, Spain. For the first tome, rizal
met Marcelo Del Pilar and Mariano Ponce, the
two titans of Propaganda movement.
Christmas in London (1888)
• Rizal returned to London on
December 24 and spent Christmas
and New Year’s days with the
Becketts.
• To his friends, Bluemetritt, Rizal
sent as Christmas gift a bust of
Emperor Augustus which he had
made.
• To another friend, Dr. Carlos
Czepelak, Rizal gave as Christmas
gift a bust of Julius Cesar.
• Rizal’s landlady, Mrs. Beckett,
knowing of his interest in magic,
gave him as Christmas gift a
book entitled “ The Life and
Adventure of Valentine Vox, the
Ventriloquist.”
RIZAL BECOMES LEADER OF FILIPINOS IN EUROPE

• By unanimous vote of all the memebers, Rizal


was chosen honorary president of society
called Asociacion La Solidaridad ( Solidaridad
Association)

• This was a recognition of his leadership among


all Filipino patriots in Europe.
Rizal and the La Solidarida Newspaper
On February 15,
1889, Garciano
Lopez Jaena
founded the
Patriotic
newspaper called
La Solidaridad in Garciano Lopez Jaena
Barcelona, Spain.
La Solidaridad aims to :

To work peacefully for political and social reforms.


To portray the deplorable conditions of the
Philippines so that the Spain may remedy them.
To appose the evil forces of reaction and
medievalism.
To advocate liberal ideas and progress.
to champion the legitimate aspirations of the
Filipino people to life, democracy amd happiness.
RIZAL’S FIRST ARTICLE IN LA SOLIDARIDAD
• Rizal’s first rticle in La solidaridad was entitled Los Agricultores
Filipinos (The Filipino Farmers)
• It was published on March 25, 1889, six days after he left London
for Paris.
WRITING’S IN LONDON

In La Vision del Fray Rodriguez demonstrated two


things: my profound knowledge of religion and my
biting satire.
• Rizal received news on Fray Rodriguez unabated
attack on his Noli. In defense he wrote a pamphlet
entitled La Vision del Fray Rodriquez (The Vision of
Fray Rodriquez) which was published in Barcelona
under his pen name Dimas Alang.
In London ,Rizal wrote the
famous “Letter to the Young
women of Malolos “ in Tagalog

He penned it, upon the request


of Marcelo del Pilar to praise
the young ladies of Malolos for
their courage to establish a
school where they could learn
Spanish , despite opposition of
Father Felipe Garcia, Spanish
parish priest in Malolos.
Dr. Reinhold Frost, Editor of
Trubner’s Record, a journal devoted
to Asian studies, requested Rizal to
contribute some articles.

In response to his request, rizal


prepared two articles which were
published in June 1889.
1. Specimen of Tagal Folklore
2. Two Eastern Fables
ROMANCE WITH GRETRUDE
BECKETT
• Rizal had a romantic
interlude with the oldest
of the three Beckett
sisters- Gertrude (Gettie).
Gettie, as she was
affectionately called, was
a buxom English girl with
brown hair, blue eyes,
and rosy cheeks.
Their friendship drifted towards
romance. Rizal affectionately
called her “ Gettie” and she
fondly called him “Pettie”

As their flirtation was fats


approaching the point of no
return. Rizal suddenly realized
that he could not marry Gettie
for he had a mission to fulfill in
life.
• Rizal suppressed the passionate yearning of his heart, and decided to go away so that
Gettie may not forget him.
• Before leaving London, Rizal finished four sculptural works.

Prometheus The Triumph of The Triumph of


Bond Death over Life Science over
Death
Suddenly on March 19,1889, he
bade goodbye to the kind Beckett
family and left London for Paris. He
was sad as he crossed the England
channel, for he cherished so many
beautiful memories of London.
Adios, London

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