Breakfast Links: Week of July 3, 2017

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Before she was famous: Jane Austen in the newspapers.
• Dolley Madison , Washington's first power hostess.
• "Full fathom five the poet lies": the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley .
• Everything has its history: a timeline of American burlesque .
• The dandies of White's in the Regency era.
• Video: Rembrandt's self-portraits from age 22 until his death at age 63 in 1669.
• The dragons are back on the Great Pagoda, Kew Gardens, London.
• A treasury of historic clothing: undressing the royal and aristocratic funeral effigies in Westminster Abbey.
• An 1804 Regency recipe for Pomade Divine .
• The odd link between Thomas Hardy , the Man with Two Heads, and Mary Shelley.
• Video: This writing table once belonged to Marie-Antoinette .
• Image: Entertaining (and we hope posed!) c1900 photo of young women fooling around with firecrackers .
• Newly discovered schoolboy sketches by John Leech , illustrator for Charles Dickens.
• Even Founding Fathers can have their hearts broken: on the road through Europe with Gouverneur Morris .
• How did Word War One recruitment posters persuade Americans to enlist?
• Image: Metal & leather convertible straight-backed steamer trunk , c1890.
• Searching for stolen  Nazi gold and treasure in the mountains of Poland.
• The medical history of rhubarb around the world.
• Friends in grief: Martha Washington and Elizabeth Willing Powel .
• Image: A silk textile curtain sewn into a 13thc Bible to protect the delicate gold leaf illumination.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection