Breakfast Links: Week of July 23, 2018

Breakfast Links are served! Our weekly round-up of favorite links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• "I am half agony, half hope": Did you know that Jane Austen considered a different ending for Persuasion ?
• Singerie : 18thc art depicting monkeys "aping" human behavior.
• Elizabeth Gould , 19thc natural history artist who traveled to Australia to execute thousands of exquisite paintings of Australian birds for her husband's publication.
• The history of that striped Breton knit shirt you've been wearing all summer.
• Faustina , Marquesa de Amboage: the ideal woman of 1899.
• Before the bookmobile: when librarians rode on horseback to deliver books to rural Americans during the Great Depression.
• Mother Goose as a Suffragette : a 1912 book of suffragette poems, digitized to read online.
• " Talking corpses ": even in death, women's testimony was considered less creditable than men's.
• Puritan history-myths from the 17thc: did Oliver Cromwell ban mince pies ?
• Image: Lovely Winterhalter painting of the linked hands of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
• The mysterious death of Captain Archibald Anderson.
• The colorful, historical vocabulary of  beer .
• These are the world's oldest known surviving pants , dating from the thirteenth to eleventh century BC.
• It was a dark and stormy night: the strange story of " Shelley's Ghost. "
• Make your own cockatrice - a terrifying animal hybrid!
• The radioactive wardrobe of Marie Curie .
• A 19thc children's picture book - in a can.
• The roots of the Hawaiian  aloha shirt .
• Just for fun:  Charlotte Brontë  goes to yoga.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.