RIZAL IN
LONDON
After visiting the United States,
Rizal lived in London from May 1888
to March 1889.
• He choose the English City to be his
new home for 3 reasons:
1. To improve my
knowledge of the
English Language.
ENGLISH
• He choose the English City to be his
new home for 3 reasons:
2. To study and
annotate Morga’s
Sucesos de Las
Islas Filipinas
• He choose the English City to be his
new home for 3 reasons:
3. London was safe
place for me to carry
on my fight against
Spanish tyranny.
Trip Across the
Atlantic
Rizal was on board the ‘’SS City of
Rome’’
• While on the board, Rizal entertained the
American and European passengers with his
marvelous skill of the yoyo as a defensive
weapon.
• Rizal arrived at Liverpool, England on
May 24, 1888
Liverpool, England
Adelphi Hotel
He spent his night at Adelphi Hotel
• Rizal wrote to his family:
‘’Liverpool is a big and beautiful
city and it’s celebrated port is
worthy of its great fame.
The entrance is magnificient and
the customhouse is quite good’’
Life in London
Dr. Antonio Ma
Regidor
• On May 25 1888, Rizal went to London
• 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, he found a
modest boarding house place
at No. 37 Chalcot Crescent,
Primrose Hill.
• Rizal was a boarder of the
Beckett Family
The Beckett Family
• Mr Beckett, organist of St. Paul’s church
• Mrs Beckett (his wife)
• 2 sons
• 4 daughters
• Rizal came to know Dr. Reinhold Frost
I was the librarian of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and an authority on
Malayan language and
costums.
• I was impressed by Rizal’s teaming and character
and he gladly recommended Rizal to the authorities
of the British Museum.
• I called ‘’Rizal ‘’ a Pearl of Man’’
News from Home,
Bad news
Bad news
1. Persecution of the Filipino patriots who signed
the ‘’Anti-frair Petition 1888’’
2. Persecution of the Calamba tenants
3. Furious attacks on Rizal by Senators
Salamanca and Vida in the Spanish Cortes and
Wenceslao Retana and Pablo Feced in Spanish
newspapers.
Bad news
4. A friend of Rizal, Laureano Vindo, a medical
student at the Unversity of Santo Tomas, was
arrested and jailed in Bilibid prison because of
the copies of Noli that were found in his
house.
5. 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
• One good news cheered Rizal, and
that was Rev. Vicente Garcia’s
defense pf the Noli against the attack
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.
Annotating Morga’s
book
• The greatest achievement of Rizal on London
was the annotating of Morga’s book, Sucessos
de las Isla Filipinas which was published in
Mexico, 1609.
• Rizal spent many days in
the reading of the British
Museum poring over the
pages of this book and
laboriously reading the old
histories of the
Philippines.
British Museum
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 time, Rizal met Marcelo del Pilar
and Mariano Ponce, the two titans of
Propaganda movement.
Christmas in
London (1888)
Christmas in London
•
(1888)
Rizal returned to London on
December 24 and spent Christmas
and New Year’s days with the
Becketts.
• To his friend, 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
Adventures of Valentine
Vox, the Ventriloquist.
Rizal becomes
leader of Filipinos
in Europe
• By unanimous vote of all
the members. Rizal was
chosen honorary
president of society
called Associacion La
Solidaridad (Solidaridad
Association)
• This was a recognition of
his leadership among all
Filipinos patriots in
Europe.
Rizal and the La
Solidaridad Newspaper
• On February 15, 1889, Graciano Lopez Jaena
founded the patriotic newspaper called La
Solidaridad in Barcelona, Spain.
aims:
La Solidaridad
1. To work peacefully for political and social
reforms
2. To portray the deplorable conditions of the
Philippines so that the Spain may remedy
them.
3. To oppose the evil forces of reaction and
medievalism.
La Solidaridad aims:
4. To advocate liberal ideas and
progress.
5. To champion the legitimate
aspirations of the Filipino people to
life, democracy and happines.
Rizal’s First Article In
La Solidaridad
• Rizal’s first article
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 I
demonstrated two
things: may 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 Rodriguez ( The Vision of Fray
Rodriguez) which 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 of Malolos.
Dr. Frost, editor of
Trubner’s Record, a
journal devoted to Dr.
Asian studies, Reinhold
requested Rizal to Frost
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
Gertrude Beckett
• Rizal had a romantic interlude with
the oldest of the three Beckett sisters
Gertrude ( Gettie) Gettie was
affectionately called, was a buxom
English girl with brown hair, blue
eyes , and rosy cheecks.
‘’ I feel in love with Rizal. On cold winter mornings, I
had a sunny smile for him, chattering daily like a
umming bird. During the family picnics I was
particularly very happy because Rizal was with
them and I gave him all my attention. And in rainy
days when Rizal stayed at home I helped him by
mixing his colors for painting or assisted in
preparing the clay for sculpturing’’
• Their friendship drifted towards
romance, Rizal affectionately called
‘’Gettie’’ and she fondly called him
‘’Pettie’’
• As their flirtation was
fact approaching the
point of no return. Rizal
suddenly realized that
he could not marry
Gettie for he had a
mission to fullfill in life.
• Rizal suppressed the passionate yearning of his heart,
and decide to go away so that Gettie may not forget
him.
• Before leaving London, Rizal finished four sculptural
works:
4. A composite
carving of the
heads of the
Beckett sisters
(gave as farewell
gift to the Beckett
3. The Triumph of
sisters)
1. Prometheus 2. The Triumph of
Bond Death over Life Science over Death
Adios, London
• Suddenly on March 19 1889, he
had goodbye to the kind of
Beckett family and left London for
Paris. He was sad as he crossed
the English channel, for he
cherished so many beautiful
memories of London.
THANK YOU !!!
