Breakfast Links: Week of March 14, 2015

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Mark my words: the subversive history of women using  thread  as ink.
• The 1871 cat show at the Crystal Palace.
• The best fashions of the 1940s through the pages of Life magazine.
• Image: In 1910 the National Association OPPOSED to Suffrage published this pamphlet outlining their opposition.
• How to find love in the 19thc: valentine writers and flirtation cards.
• How female computers mapped the universe and brought America to the moon.
• How patriot Ethan Allen got married to a Loyalist widow.
• Image: Recreation of Helen of Troy's makeup based on 13th BC Mycenaean plaster head.
• The oldest street scene photographs of New York City.
• Fanny Eaton , the black Pre-Raphaelite muse that art history forgot.
• Mansfield Park at two hundred: in defense of Fanny Price.
• Very rare stockings for a suffragette, embroidered with "Votes for Women."
• Debunking the myth of Scottish slaves .
• The laptops that powered the American Revolution.
• How a word's meaning changes: what could be nicer than nice ?
• Image: A book of erotic subjects , owned by George IV.
• Flora MacDonald : Jacobite or not?
• In the steps of 19thc knitting designer Jane Gaugain .
• The 1830 food riots in Limerick.
• R.K. Rowling interprets the historical tragedy of the Salem Witch Trials as...something else.
• Petticoats , busk boards, and pink lightning.
• Online exhibition of objects related to women during World War One .
• Image: Kensington Oval suffragettes , 1908.
• Two survivors linked to St. Alban, Wood Street: an old library book and an lonely church tower.
• Psychogeographers' landmark London Stone goes on display at last.
• Remarkable 15thc house and shop for sale in France - but it's a serious handyman's special.
• Utopia : nine of the most miserable attempts to create idealized societies.
• Just for fun:  Mr. Darcy's shirt is coming to America, and no, you can't try it on.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.