Breakfast Links: Week of October 30, 2017

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Mary Jane Peale : The forgotten Peale painter.
• "Such sleeves I never beheld - such frights!" Harriet Low and 1830s fashion.
• Sex and the single man in late medieval England.
• Blackface : the birth of an American stereotype.
• Borrowing history: " expired" library books in pictures.
• Image: " Ladies Ears Bored Gratis": A 1793 version of the Piercing Pagoda.
• Mary Hodgkinson , Pre-Raphaelite super-model and the reason Charles Dickens should eat at Millais' step-brother's house.
• The 1837 house at 175 MacDougal Street in New York, home to a string of interesting and wealthy families.
• Ten pieces of (bad) advice from history to women on how to manage their periods .
• Image: A hospital for cats in New York, 1888.
• A five-minute guide to waistcoats and vests .
• How to make a hedgehog - according to this 1797 recipe book.
• The rise and fall of Sir Robert Peel's Drayton Manor .
• More about restoring Queen Victoria's petticoat : the petticoat takes a bath.
• Southern comfort: America's pleasures and paradoxes are on display on its porches in the South.
• Image: Benjamin Franklin was given this walking stick while ambassador to France; the gold cap is shaped like his signature fur cap.
• For those who love Regency townhouses : a simple guide to Hove's Brunswick Square.
• Design for disability and objects in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
• Vindolanda : uncovering the secrets of a Roman fort.
• Just for fun: Ancient literature as Onion headlines.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection