This book explores companionship in travel writing in pre-modern and modern times. It features women as travellers from all parts of the world, with varied travel patterns and behaviours. It documents their stories against the backdrop of companionship, or the absence of it. The book reveals that from antiquity onwards traveling together has always been a structural part of women's and men's social lives, cultures and worldviews.

Introduction 1. On the Ship in Petronius' Satyrica. Gender Roles on the Move in the Early Roman Empire 2. Meeting the holy men. Self-perception of the female traveller and interaction between men and women in the late antique Itinerarium Egeriae 3. 'He proved to be an inseparable travel companion'. Emo of Wittewierum and his Rome-journey in 1211-1212 4. Not for weaker vessels?! Travel and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries 5. The travels/travails of Mme de Sévigné. The companion(s) of an inveterate letter-writer. 6. Female Passengers and Female Voices in Early Modern Dutch Travelogues of Leisure Trips (1669-1748) 7. Memsahibs' Travel Writings: Wifely Virtues, and Female Imperial Historiography 8. Travelogues by two companions describing Rachel's American odyssée mortelle 1855-1856. 9. Companions and Competitors. Men and Women Travellers and Travel Writing in the mid-19th-century French Pyrenees 10. Enamoured Men - Confident Women. Gender Relations and the Travel Journal of Lilla von Bulyovszky (1833-1909) 11. An Italian in Scandinavia. Elisa Capellis's Idealizations of the North 12. Goddess and Leader: Conflict and Companionship in Agnes Herbert's Hunting Travelogues 13. 'My luggage and my ladies were unloaded' Companionship in Cyriel Buysse's De vroolijke tocht 14. Comrade Lisa. Spousal labour and family branding in Colin and Lisa Ross's travel media 15. The Not So Solo Traveller. Mary Pos, Dutch Writer and Journalist