Daniel Carkner🦆
As it's International Book Day today, @LaurieBridges was suggesting that people create wiki articles on books to celebrate it. Here's my effort, the widely translated book of letters by Kartini (1879–1904). The book was edited by a Dutch liberal J.H. Abendanon and released in 1911 as "From Darkness to Light"; it sold quite well and the first English ed. came out in 1920 followed by a Malay ed. in 1922.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_a_Javanese_Princess
Letters of a Javanese Princess - Wikipedia

Apr 23, 2023 at 6:08pmWeb
Show threadDaniel Carkner🦆Apr 23, 2023
I've written many wiki articles about newspapers but never about a book so it's a good learning experience. To think of a colonial era Indonesian book to write up I actually searched "boekoe jang terkenal" (well-known book) in CRL's historical Indonesian newspapers archive and this came up. Honestly colonial-era Indonesian literature is very poorly covered on EN Wikipedia, I've occasionally added some authors but it's still very patchy at best, with an over-emphasis on "national heroes".
Show threadDaniel Carkner🦆Apr 23, 2023
Something I found out while researching this, despite Kartini being of international interest and declared a National Hero of Indonesia by Sukarno, the actual unedited letters and archive were held in private by Abendanon's descendants until 1987 when they were donated to KITLV in Leiden. A complete English translation of her letters only came out in 2014 and afaik they have not yet been published in a complete Dutch edition.
Show threadElisheva Meira ✡︎ 🌈Apr 25, 2023

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Found it on Project Gutenberg 🙂 My tablet is groaning 😉

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37149

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Show threadDaniel Carkner🦆Apr 25, 2023
@emmaaum @LaurieBridges yup I linked it way down at the bottom of the Wikipedia!🤓
Show threadElisheva Meira ✡︎ 🌈Apr 25, 2023
@dancarkner that's far too sensible for my brain :)