Rizal In London

After visiting the United States,

Rizal lived in London from May 1888 to March 1889.
3 Reasons why he choose English City to be his new home.
• 1. To improve my knowledge of the English Language. ENGLISH
• 2. To study and annotate Morga’s Sucesos de Las Islas Filipinas.
Antonio de Morga.
• 3. London was a safe place for him to carry on his fight against
Spanish tyranny.

Trip Across the Atlantic

• SS City of Rome
• Liverpool, England on May 24, 1888
• Rizal wrote to his family
Life in London
• On May 25,1888, Rizal went to London.
• The Beckett Family

News from Home, Bad news

1. Persecution of the Filipino patriots who signed the “Anti-friar
Petition 1888”.
2. Persecution of the Calamba tenants
3. Furious attacks on Rizal by Senators Salamanca and Vida
4. A friend of Rizal.
5. Rizal’s brother-in-law
News from Home, Good news
• Rev. Vicente Garcia’s defense of the Noli against the
attacks of the friars. Mariano

Annotating Morga’s book

• Sucessos de Las Isla Filipinas (1609)

Rizal's short visit to Paris and Spain

• Early in September 1888
• On December 11, 1888
Christmas in London (1888)
• Rizal returned to London
• Christmas Gifts to his friends
- bust of Emperor Augustus
- bust of Julius Cesar
• The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist .

Rizal becomes leader of Filipinos in Europe

• Asociacion La Solidaridad - President
Rizal and the La Solidaridad Newspaper
• On February 15, 1889
• La Solidaridad

Rizal’s First Article in La Solidaridad

• It was published on March 25, 1889

Writing’s in London
• La Vision del Fray Rodriguez (The Vision of Fray Rodriguez)
- my profound knowledge of religion
- my biting satire.
• Letter to the Young Women of Malolos
• Dr. Frost, editor of Trubner’s Record

Romance with Gertrude Beckett

• Rizal affectionately called Gertrude as Gettie and fondly called
him Pettie.
• Rizal finished four sculptural works
1. Prometheus Bond
2. The Triumph of Death over Life
3. A composite carving of The heads of the Beckett sisters (gave as farewell gift
to the Beckett sisters)
4. The Triumph of Science over Death.