Ang kababaihan ng Malolos (2014)

On December 12, 1888, twenty (20) young women from the leading mestizo-sangley clans of Malolos signed a letter asking permission from governor-general Valeriano Weyler to open a night school where they could learn the Spanish language. The women, accompanied by a relative, trooped to the Convento of Malolos and personally presented the letter to Weyler, who was then visiting Malolos, to the chagrin of the Augustinian friar curate of the town, Felipe Garcia, who was deliberately kept in the dark about the women's plan. They are the forerunners of feminist movements in the Philippines. This event reached Jose Rizal while he was in London, England, and was so moved by it that he wrote an essay dedicated to these women of Malolos.