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Cornelia van Nijenroode was the daughter of a [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) merchant by a Japanese [[courtesan]], born on [[Dejima]] but raised in Batavia.
Following the death of her first husband, a VOC official, she married Johan Bitter, a lawyer who robbed her of her wealth.
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==References==
*Matt Matsuda, ''Pacific Worlds'', Cambridge University Press (2012), 80.
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