Jack and Jill
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"Jack and Jill" is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the commonest tune and its variations as number 10266, although it has been set to several others. The origi
A postcard of the rhyme using Dorothy M. Wheeler's 1916 illustration Playⓘ
An advertising card based on Kate Greenaway's 1881 illustration of the rhyme
The plaque erected in 2000 at Kilmersdon to commemorate the village's association with the rhyme
Mother Goose
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Mother Goose is a character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. She also appeared in a song, the f
Jack and Jill
…of theories continue to be advanced to explain the rhyme's historical origin. The earliest version of the rhyme was in a reprint of John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody, thought to have been first published in London around 1765. The rhyming of "water" with "after" was taken by Iona and Peter Opie to suggest that the…
The opening verse of "Old Mother Goose and the Golden Egg", from an 1860s chapbook
Mary Goose's gravestone in Granary Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts
Frontispiece from the first English translation, 1729
Joseph Grimaldi (right) in the role, an 1846 print by George Cruikshank