Sarah Kemble Knight Provider : Margarette Connor A Puritan. wrote a travel narrative, a very popular form of reading in England of the late 17th early 18th centuries and a number of women wrote them. Although it was written during 1704-1705, it was not published until 1825 It is very readable thanks to Knight's humorous portrait of herself and her surroundings. It also counterbalances the still all-too-common stereotype of Puritans as dour, somber, unsmiling, and morbidly pious. This work was not written with publication in mind She was a business woman with high social status Received news about settlement of the estate of a New Haven relative. She set forth at once on her journey Left behind her daughter (15), her elderly mother, and her husband, who was on business abroad at the time Her excursion to New York is amusing, trying and frightening. What she faces shows us very clearly her personal mettle. It was a rare woman who would undertake the journey alone