Renaissance Women Clothing

Noble Women

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I

Catherine Parr

Mary II Stuart, (arranged) wife of William III

Elizabeth of York, The Yorkist Queen

Young Catherine Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England

Mary Wotton, Lady Guildenford

Thomas More and his family

Lady Sidney and her children

Women Writers, painters, and artists

Mary Beale, English Painter

Aphra Behn, the first professional woman writer in English

Elizabeth Cary, the author of the first published tragedy by a woman in English

Margaret Cavendish, English writer, poet and original philosopher

Madeleine de Scudery. A French writer of long romances

Margaret Hughes, an actress by the name of Margaret Hughes in Othello

Middle or Lower Class Women

Lower Class Woman

Lower Class Woman

Working Women

Splendor Solis, School of Nuernberg, c. 1531/2

Joachim Beuckelaer, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, 1565

Pieter BruegelThe Peasant Dance 1568