Breakfast Links: Week of August 8, 2016
� American vacations of the early 1900s in color.
� London's westward expansion in the 18thc and the development of Mayfair.
� Celebrating Elizabeth Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite artist, poet, model, and muse.
� A charming 1920s "autograph quilt" from the Pink Granite Grange, New Hampshire.
� "Girls bowled, batted, ran, and catched": yes, women's cricket was played in the 1700s.
� Free to read online: rare novels and plays by women writers, 1600-1830, from the Chawton House Library.
� Image: One hundred years ago, Wyoming guardsmen stage a protest in Cheyenne by marching in nothing but their underwear.
� How exhaustion became a status symbol.
� Charlotte Cushman, a star of the stage who demanded equal pay - in the 19thc.
� Napoleon's remarkable porcelain "cabaret set" - a 36-piece breakfast service decorated with scenes of Egypt, 1810.
� Syphilis onstage: Eugene Brieux's 1913 play Damaged Goods brought a taboo subject into the limelight.
� English rose: cosmetics in 18thc England.
� Image: How cooking has changed - recommended boiling (!) times for vegetables and seafood, 1922.
� Five female coders that changed the world.
� Blessing cars and eating oysters: celebrating the saints' days of St. Christopher and St. James.
� The language of 18thc politics.
� George Washington writes to his step-granddaughter with advice for a happy marriage: companionship is more important than passion.
� "Have mercy on your dear child," 1818.
� Image: Victorian mourning ring mounted with the glass eye of the deceased.
� An interview with Tracey Panek, the official historian of denim for Levi Strauss & Co.
� True colors: light damage and historic needlework.
� The forgotten wife of Charles Dickens.
� Ambire, an antidote against all sorts of poisons, from the New Kingdom of Granada, c1628.
� The 1880 police raid on the notorious cross-dressing ball at Temperance Hall.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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