an incomprehensive and ever-growing thread of period drama QUEENS

keira knightley (pictured: anna karenina • colette • atonement • pride & prejudice)

saoirse ronan (pictured: little women • brooklyn • mary queen of scots • ammonite)

anya taylor-joy (pictured: emma • the miniaturist • peaky blinders • the witch)

rosamund pike (pictured: pride & prejudice • hostiles • wives and daughters • the libertine)

romola garai (pictured: daniel deronda • emma • the miniaturist • the crimson petal and the white)

elle fanning (pictured: mary shelley • the great • live by night • the beguiled)

sarah gadon (pictured: alias grace • belle • the girl king • 11.22.63)

michelle dockery (pictured: downton abbey • the hollow crown • anna karenina • godless)

claire foy (pictured: wolf hall • upstairs downstairs • the crown • little dorrit)

natalie dormer (pictured: casanova • the tudors • the scandalous lady w • picnic at hanging rock)

holliday grainger (pictured: tulip fever • lady chatterly’s lover • anna karenina • the borgias)

sophie okonedo (pictured: the hollow crown • antony and cleopatra • a raisin in the sun • oliver twist)

winona ryder (pictured: little women • the crucible • dracula • the age of innocence)

tamzin merchant (pictured: the mystery of edwin drood • the tudors • salem • pride & prejudice)

mia wasikowska (pictured: albert nobbs • jane eyre • damsel • madame bovary)

lily james (pictured: war and peace • darkest hour • the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society • downton abbey)

crystal clarke (pictured: a woman of no importance • sanditon • the king’s daughter • ordeal by innocence)