Julie Wheelwright
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quite know what happened but poor Norman who just at age I think he was only two dies so this is another moment of horrendous tragedy for her but I think that this is a moment where I mean she's obviously she's very interested in amateur dramatics she joins a local Amdram society but she's also very curious and very observant of the
local culture.
And in Java and Sumatra, she observes the temple dances and, you know, street music.
And I think that all of that becomes very, very influential in who she later becomes.
Well, we don't know, but we do know that there was a culture of indigenous women in Java and Sumatra.
They were hired as what were called nayas, so they would be hired to look after the children, but they were also housekeepers, and sometimes what would happen
what took place was that there were sexual relationships between the Dutch officers and these women who after time would come to live as their wives.
But if they went home on leave and they brought a wife back, a Dutch wife back, who obviously had
much greater status, then these women would be sort of relegated back to the role of housekeeper.
Sometimes they even had their own children who would live as part of that family.
So it's very possible.
I mean, again, we don't have concrete evidence, but it is quite possible to believe that one of these women was
taking revenge, perhaps.
The other explanation that historians have discussed is that we know that Rudolf suffered from venereal disease and that she suggests that
Mata Hari suggests in her letters to this relation of hers much later on that the children were being treated with mercury, which was one of the sort of standard treatments for the treatment of venereal disease, and that Norman may have been poisoned through that treatment and not survived.
Norman dies, so yet another terrible tragedy.
And then Rudolph decides to retire in 1900, and then they come back
to the Netherlands in 1902 with Non, their surviving child.
But it doesn't last.
Is it a happy marriage?
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