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(Dr. Jose P. Rizal)
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The Women of Malolos comprised of 20 women from prominent Chinese-Filipino families in Malolos, Bulacan who signed and presented a letter to Governor-

General Valeriano Weyler on December 12, 1888, requesting permission to open a night school where they could be taught the Spanish language.
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The Spanish parish priest, Fr. Felipe Garcia, objected so that the Governor-General turned down the petition. However, the young women, in defiance of the friar's wrath, bravely continued their agitation for establishment of the school, a thing unheard of in the Philippines in those times.
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They finally succeeded in obtaining government approval for their project on condition that Señorita Guadalupe Reyes should be their teacher, and that the classes be held in the day-time and not at night.  The incident caused a great stir in the Philippines and in far-away Spain.  Marcelo H. Del Pilar, writing in Barcelona on February 17, 1889, requested Dr. Rizal to send a letter in Tagalog to the brave women of Malolos.
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February 22, 1889: Dr. Jose Rizal wrote to a group of young women of Malolos