Breakfast Links: Week of December 4, 2017

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Henrietta Duterte, the first black female funeral director, who used coffins to help people escape slavery.
• During World War One, patriotic knitters faced the perils of "knitter's face" and "knitting nerves."
• Anne of Green Gables , patron saint of girls who ask too many questions.
• Image: Shopping, 1787: Gallerie du Palais Royal, Paris.
• The true history of Pocahontas : romantic historical myths versus tragic reality.
• Frost fairs on the Thames .
• "I heard the bells on Christmas Day": how hope rose from despair for poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .
• Now online: Horwood's Plan of the Cities of London , 1792-99, puts the city (even houses!) at your fingertips.
• The scandalous and formidable Lady Holland .
• Image: Fine glass kohl pot from ancient Egypt retains its original applicator, much like modern mascara.
• The hidden history of  mac and cheese .
• The politics of hair .
• Thousands of women pursued their own California dreams during World War Two.
• Murder ballads , gender, and who deserves to die.
• The splendor of weddings during the Italian Renaissance.
• Image: A 19thc letter written in cross-hatching to save postage and paper.
• Lace me up, Daddy: a brief glimpse into male corsetry.
• How Victorian women cleaned their fancy dresses.
• Was Lydia E. Pinkham the Queen of Quackery?
• The mysterious New Orleans chapel of prosthetic limbs .
• Image: Proof that none of us have risen to the modern challenge of serving pasta elegantly.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection