Titlebook: British Female Emigration Societies and the New World, 1860-1914; Marie Ruiz Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19010-2ere mostly gentlewomen who could often pay for their departure, but still turned to the female emigration societies for support and protection. It also proves that the female emigrants’ selection was influenced by the selectionist ideals of the time.

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Literature in Theory and in Practice,ners. Based upon the female emigrants’ letters, this chapter shows that women were offered new liberties in the colonies. Yet, for some female emigrants, the adventure could also be very disappointing.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0061339tury, the female emigration societies invested their emigrants with a monumental mission for their nation, but also for the whole humankind. Influenced by Anglo-Saxonist ideals, they were used as tools to spread Britishness worldwide. This chapter shows how female emigrants were turned into the proud representatives of an ‘elected’ nation.

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Rachel Crespo-Otero,Mario Barbattius reputation of the Pacific colonies as centres of prostitution, the female emigration societies insisted upon the respectability of their emigrants, who would not become depraved in the Antipodes, hence turning them into superior women.

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,The Female Emigration Societies and the ‘Eye of Power’,iculties and limitations in Britain, where middle-class women were not expected to work, but rather to get married. Yet, as their potential husbands could not be found in Britain and work opportunities rarely presented themselves, emigration often represented their only viable survival solution.

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From the Abduction of the Sabine Women to the Exportation of British Women,ners. Based upon the female emigrants’ letters, this chapter shows that women were offered new liberties in the colonies. Yet, for some female emigrants, the adventure could also be very disappointing.

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