Jill C. Bender (NHC Fellow, 2019–20)
Project Title
Assisted Emigrants: Irish Female Migration Projects and the British Empire
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2019–20
Jill C. Bender analyzed a large collection of documents from her research in Australia and the United Kingdom. She also drafted a chapter of her book, provisionally entitled: Assisted Emigrants: Irish Female Migration Schemes and the British Empire. In addition, she wrote a related article, “‘The Marriage Force’: Irish Female Emigration to Southern Africa in 1857,” which has been conditionally accepted for publication in the Journal of British Studies.