ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how their lives intersect with each other and with significant British literary productions from the period. It begins with Elen More, featured as the 'Black Queen of Beauty' in the early sixteenth-century Scottish pageants that presaged the masques Ben Jonson crafted almost a century later for King James VI of Scotland, subsequently James I of England and his queen consort, Anne of Denmark. Dwelling on the most celebrated instance of an involuntary traveler from the Muslim world to Western Europe during the sixteenth century, Natalie Zemon Davis in her critical biography of al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzanalso known as 'Iohannes Leo Africanus' and Iohn Leo, a More offers an additional term we can apply to those girls and women from the Islamic world who traveled to the British Isles during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
