Breakfast Links: Week of November 7, 2016

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Prize money : frigates, treasure, and Jane Austen.
• The heroines of 19thc cookboooks .
• Kissed against her will : a Victorian case of assault and abuse of power.
• Mesmerizing video via drone of the mist rolling off the cliffs on the Dorset coast.
• Image: Women fishing next to a Studebaker "Big Six" touring car, 1919.
• American child brides and the dangers of underage sex.
• The unique beauty of Dante Gabriel Rosetti.
• Extreme bagpiping situations, from Antarctica to the Beaches of D-Day.
• A metal detectorist finds a 15thc gold ring .
• Sophia Smith's 1818 sampler , made in Connecticut.
• How Emma Hamilton brought ancient Greek fashion to 18thc Europe.
• Image: Gold brooch, c1860-80, depicting a wyvern , a winged two-legged dragon with a barbed tail.
• When Charles Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe met, and Dickens' pet raven inspired Poe's poem.
• Evanion, the Royal Conjurer , plays with fire.
• In 1798, nascent party politics turned George Washington's birthday into a political headache for John Adams.
• The Jersey City devil .
• Image: In praise of doodling! This doodle of a fool was drawn by artist Hans Holbein in the margin of a book in 1515.
• "On being over-fond of animals ", 1765.
• Casket couture?  Fashions for the grave, 1915.
• More than just a soundtrack: drums, bugles, and bagpipes in the Seven Years War.
• Was the color green fashionable in the 18thc?
• Image: Just for fun: more proofreader marks .
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.