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Clare Howard
1881–1967
A scholar of English literature and travel writing, this early 20th-century author is best known for exploring how Renaissance-era English travelers learned from the wider world. Her work blends literary history with a clear interest in culture, education, and the habits of reading and travel.
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English Travellers of the Renaissance
by Clare Howard
About the author
Born in 1881 and died in 1967, Clare Macllelen Howard was an American professor of English and literary scholar. Available records identify her with Barnard College, and her academic work was connected to Columbia University, where English Travellers of the Renaissance was published as a doctoral study in the 1910s.
That book remains her best-known work. It examines how English travelers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries viewed Europe, what they hoped to learn abroad, and how travel shaped ideas about education and society. The subject gave her a natural place between literary criticism, history, and cultural study.
Although not a widely famous public figure, Howard's writing has lasted because it opens a lively window onto Renaissance curiosity and the making of the educated traveler. Readers interested in older scholarship, literary history, and the cultural meaning of travel will find her work thoughtful and approachable.