Breakfast Links: Week of August 8, 2016

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• 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.