Breakfast Links: Week of August 7, 2017

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• A timeline of fashion history 1784-1970 through fashion illustration.
• A tale of two authors:  Jane Austen and Germaine de Stael .
• Remembering Grace Darling , a true heroine who became a Victorian media sensation.
• Emma Allison , a "Lady Engineer" at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.
• Remembering the 19thc Chinese script that only women could read.
• Sneaky: a recently declassified (by the CIA!) recipe for invisible ink from World War One.
• The complicated lives of the 18thc poor in England: going for a  soldier .
• Image:  Playing cards  from 1942 had important secrets.
• What the deuce! The curse words of Charles Dickens .
• Secret Versailles , after hours.
• Soldier-printers' interjections of encouragement made on the American Civil War battlefield.
• The Temple of the Muses : the biggest and cheapest bookstore in the 18thc world.
• What became of Charlotte Williams, the illegitimate daughter of the fifth Duke of Devonshire?
• Image: Harvest knots, exchanged as tokens of love and courtship.
•  Frances Folsom Cleveland : the 22-year-old FLOTUS as an 1880s Washington celebrity.
• Six of New England's most famous writers' houses .
• Did Alexander Hamilton (and probably Thomas Jefferson, too) hold this coin ?
• Did French priests want to marry during the French Revolution?
• The Greenwich Village house for being the Louisa May Alcott House - but isn't.
• Found: a lunch box from 4,000 years ago.
• Image: Mary Shelley's memorial album with locks of her friends' hair.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection