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Bitter bonds : a colonial divorce drama of the seventeenth century
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ISBN: 1558762523 9781558762527 1558762531 9781558762534 Year: 2002 Publisher: Princeton, NJ M. Wiener Publishers

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In 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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