Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were
invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in
Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel,
often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber.
Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English
stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on
female travel and as a reflection of historical women's travel,
whether intentional or not. Travel and Travail conclusively refutes
the notion of female travel in the early modern era as "an absent
presence." The first part of the volume offers analyses of female
travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their
husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were
thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to
literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare,
Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors
or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the
global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.
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