Breakfast Links: Week of November 14, 2011

Served up fresh: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links!  Our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, collected from around the Twitterverse.

• Dolly Wilde, Oscar's fascinating neice, a salon celebrity in early 20th c Paris: http://bit.ly/sZEX4T

• Historic Dress (or hat) of the Day: Silver bonnet, 1830-1860: http://bit.ly/uX1RGT

• George Romney (1734 – 1802) - an artist obsessed with Emma Hamilton http://bit.ly/s8sc3H

• Leeds Castle to be rented out as £1m 'Olympic playground' http://tgr.ph/uFmIvL; or, if you require a more royal lodging, fancy renting out St James's Palace? http://bit.ly/tBUEMx

• Creepy but fascinating:The Danse Macabre Collection http://bit.ly/txxrBB

• Surgeon George James Guthrie, Wellington’s combat surgeon: http://bit.ly/sLq442

• Guns and Horses: King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery http://wp.me/p13rlt-1bA

• Video tour of 18th-19th c clothes in Rev. Fashions exhibition at Fairfax House, York: http://bit.ly/sipAxL 

• How did gentlemen shave in the 19th c? http://bit.ly/vdFTSF

• The French art of drinking without getting drunk c 1870:http://bit.ly/t3jVbX

• 'Elements of Drawing',John Ruskin's teaching collection on-line:http://bit.ly/sct2rf 

• The pagoda is an extraordinarily enduring symbol of the whimsicality of chinoiserie: http://bit.ly/uNbhQW

• Executed this week in 1774, Jack Sheppard, celebrity escape artist:http://bit.ly/vVN2OO; The wonderfully illustrated version of Jack Sheppard's escapades: http://bit.ly/vyvNsF

• A handful of memento mori skull/skeleton rings: http://bit.ly/tBFhte

• Following his death at the battle of Jutland in 1916, 16-yr old John Travers Cornwell became a national hero: http://bit.ly/dh476U

•  "The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis" at The Cloisters.:http://met.org/tggu0q

• The forgotten Pre-Raphaelite: Alas Poor Walter...Deverell: http://bit.ly/sV8UBv

• Interesting article: What were advertisements like before the 1840s? How did they target women? http://bit.ly/tRb1tR

• A few thoughts on how pirates really drank their rum: bumboo & flip but not much grog http://bit.ly/vd3uSL 

• Mary Lincoln goes shopping on Broadway - extravagant 1857 NYC emporium: http://bit.ly/vk6UnX 

• Twihards, Potterheads, Whovians, and Tolkienites - how do you decide on a fandom name?http://oxford.ly/tR3rpe

• The romantic curvature of these 18^th c shoes encourages the voyeuristic eye http://met.org/rJ9SEK