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
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
Nursery rhyme
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A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from c. 1800. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with
Mother Goose
…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 first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery rhyme. The character also appears in a pantomime tracing its…
Illustration of "Hey Diddle Diddle", a well-known nursery rhyme
Popular Nursery Tales and Rhymes, Warner & Routledge, London, c. 1859
"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep", from a 1901 illustration by William Wallace Denslow