Breakfast Links: Week of June 6, 2011

Here's the latest serving of weekly Breakfast Links, our favorite links to this and that from miscellaneous blogs, web sites, and news stories from the farthest reaches of the Twitterverse. If you’re on Twitter, please follow us – @2nerdyhistgirls –  just click on the little bird in the column to the right.

• Great news story, 1737: After "poor" widow of bankrupt man dies, £1300 in gold & notes discovered sewn into her stays! http://bit.ly/kdOD2H

• Wonderful small set of vernacular photos - Sally's shoe store, Salem, late 1800s http://bit.ly/lOJ3MG

• Lost Conan Doyle novel to be published, written when he was only 23: http://bit.ly/jzpMWJ via

• New digital archive of Shelley-Godwin collections, including Frankenstein draft! http://bit.ly/kWhgsw

• Tudor coroners' records give clue to 'real Ophelia' for Shakespeare. http://bbc.in/j2RwFW

• Abigail Adams thoughts on French women http://bit.ly/jMV5jP

• Mother of pearl & silver card case, ca. 1860, the Museum of the City of New York's collection. http://fb.me/AGMbKXGZ

• Beautifully done fashion illustrations from a 1930s teenager in a small town: http://bit.ly/k3B09X

• Historic Dress of the Day: portrait of Mme de Florian by Giovanni Boldini, 1898 (with an amazing story) http://bit.ly/juZe6O

• Design students' contest to "complete the look" of historic bodices - wonderful, imaginative results: http://bit.ly/iiicSj

• One of only two surviving coaching inns in London: The George Inn, Southwark http://post.ly/2BWwK

• American vs English Etiquette in Edwardian era: http://bit.ly/iQCIgq

• Breathtaking costumes & hair by Spanish Court Painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez 1599–1660 http://bit.ly/hVBIuQ

• Did the Victorians care about animals? Possibly. Vegetarians? Not at all: http://bit.ly/mRSpcB

• Looking at the William Morris-inspired embroideries & decor at Standen: http://bit.ly/mDh8wJ

• Happy birthday Gustave Courbet: "The proudest and most arrogant man in France" Beautiful images: http://met.org/il75Xf

• Excellent article on Lord Byron & the high price of celebrity: http://bit.ly/kDsygv

• The only surviving theatrical space used by Shakespeare:Treading in his footsteps at Hampton Court http://bit.ly/j9hduc

• Dido Lindsay, the mixed race & illegitimate daughter of a navy man who was brought up by an Earl, http://bit.ly/lkyjMY