Served up fresh: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links! Our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles collected for you from around the Twitterverse.
• The extravagant 1902 carriage house in NYC so large it became a private school. http://bit.ly/yvOcsh
• Pie Week ends with a classic of the genre: 17th c recipe for pork pie, plus how to pickle walnuts http://bit.ly/xZms3Z
• Rebellious Virginian slave named Violet, executed & her head stuck on a pike as a warning,1780 http://ow.ly/9hwEO
• When Huckleberry Finn's Pap had the "delirium tremens", this is what he meant, c 1844: http://bit.ly/yn4cLn
• Whitework embroidery, cutwork , & draping embellish this stunning 1870s polonaise bodice: http://bit.ly/zR69Fz
• How do fabric samples provide a glimpse into the life of a colonial NYC businesswoman? http://ow.ly/9xDcW
• The Shoe Project: stories of women who immigrated to Canada & the shoes that mean something to them: http://bit.ly/yJMrAJ
• Elizabethan clown Richard Tarlton. Part Tommy Cooper, part Marty Feldman & a dash of Lenny Bruce. http://wp.me/p1EDRx-80
• This week in 1812: Lady Caroline Lamb writes anonymous letter to Lord Byron praising poem ‘Childe Harold’. http://bit.ly/w12hPv
• How to make the perfect chair screen, 1850, from Miss Leslie's Ladies' Handbook: http://bit.ly/ADo0cX
• This week in 1900: 1st plague death occurred in Black Death epidemic in Victorian SF: http://bit.ly/AAPK9O
• How do you rate as a husband or wife of the 1930s? Take the test and find out: http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/
6 comments:
Thank you for the link!!
Alas, the last link is to tinyurl and not the 1930's!
That bad link to the 1930s spouse-test is fixed now, and there's no excuses for seeing how you'd measure up. :) Thanks for pointing it out to me - sometimes links go kablooey in the process of posting.
Thank you for the link to "The Barbary Plague." I immediately went to Barnes&Noble.com and bought a copy. Can't wait to start reading about this fascinating part of America's medical history.
I don't often comment but wanted to tell you that often your links lead me down a long enjoyable rabbit hole to other links and many discoveries. I in turn share many of them with my costume guild. We all appreciate your postings.
Val
Another great collection. Thanks for posting these. I was particularly interested in the case of Mary Ramsey, which led me to another site about Vicorian railways.
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