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number9dream's review
4.0
It was a very interesting read, though a bit repetitive through the middle. Kartini's push for education for girls, her critic of the Javanese culture, and a lot of questions about the glorification of the colonizers, and their "open-minded" culture, while faced with their racism and destruction in your own land. The letters read as a continuous search for answers, sadly Kartini died at the age of 25, four days after childbirth.
theresidentbookworm's review against another edition
2.0
It's interesting to me that Letters of a Javenese Princess is considered Dutch literature. It's probably because the original letters were in Dutch and classify therefore as such, but it still feels out of place in the class I'm currently taking. The letters themselves are easy to read; Kartini is an intelligent, clever writer, and she really paints a picture of what life in Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies) was like. I'd really recommend them especially since they're available to download via Kindle for free.
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