Clare Howard

Clare Macllelen Howard was an American professor of English whose life spanned 1881 to 1967. She is known for English Travellers of the Renaissance, a study first published in 1913 and also submitted as her Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1914.

Her work focused on early modern literature and culture, especially the way English travelers encountered Europe during the Renaissance. She also edited The Poems of Sir John Davies, showing a continuing interest in Renaissance writing and scholarship.

Howard's books suggest a writer drawn to literary history rather than celebrity, using careful research to make older texts and ideas easier to approach. While biographical details about her life are not easy to confirm from the sources reviewed here, her published work clearly places her among the serious academic readers and editors who helped preserve and interpret Renaissance literature.