Breakfast Links: Week of September 10, 2018

Breakfast Links are served! Our weekly round-up of favorite links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Why don't more boys read Little Women ?
• Aretha Franklin, and the only hat that matters.
• Paths of glory : the road to lasting fame and fortune rarely runs straight.
• The Georgian Post Office played a major role in espionage,  doing what the Secret Services do today.
• Dreams and telepathy at the end of the American Civil War.
• An Indian chintz gown : fashion, status, and slavery in 18thc America.
• Image: An exquisite hairnet of gold , a superb example of a Hellenistic goldsmith's talent and skill, c200-150 BC.
• Coffee houses, taverns, tea, and chocolate in Restoration London.
• An extended family of stay-makers (corset-makers) living and working in 18thc London.
• Real estate history: when Trinity Church ruled lower Manhattan.
• Image: Silk damask gauze shoes from Chinese royalty that look surprisingly modern - yet are 800 years old.
• Imposters in history: sixteen famous con-artists and pretenders.
• Culture in the early American classroom: a failed attempt at assimilation .
• Fashion + competitive masculinity = the codpiece .
• Elizabeth Keckley : businesswoman, philanthropist, and dressmaker to a president's wife.
• Image: From these drawings, it's clear that 19thc artist Gericault had a very bite-y cat .
• The dipping and drinking wells of Hyde Park .
• Film star: a classic Baltimore movie palace shines again.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.