Book Announcement: Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World
Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea, eds. University of Nebraska Press, 2019 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…