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Mother Goose is a well-known figure in the literature of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Mother Goose is best known in the United States; in the United Kingdom and other English speaking nations the designation "nursery rhymes" is more common.^[1]. Most people in the UK now only know Mother Goose as a title for a Christmas pantomime - the tales have formed the basis for many classic British pantomimes, including one called "Mother Goose". Mother Goose is a figure in the literature of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. ... Template:Pd-old Puss in Boots, from a handwritten and illustrated version of Charles Perraults Contes de ma mère lOye (Mother Goose Tales) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Template:Pd-old Puss in Boots, from a handwritten and illustrated version of Charles Perraults Contes de ma mère lOye (Mother Goose Tales) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... This article is about the French author. ... Gustave Dor s 19th century engraving of le chat bott Puss in Boots is a European folktale collected by Charles Perrault in his Contes de ma m re lOye (Mother Goose Tales), and earlier in 1634, by Giambattista Basile as Gagliuso. ... Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ... A nursery rhyme is a traditional song or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ... The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph bookcover, 1890 Pantomime (informally, panto) refers to a theatrical genre, traditionally found in Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Ireland, which is usually performed around the Christmas and New Year holiday season. ...

Who was Mother Goose?

Mother Goose is the name given to an archetypical country woman, who is supposedly the originator of the Mother Goose stories and rhymes. Yet no specific writer has ever been identified with such a name, of which the first known mention appears in an aside in a versified chronicle of weekly happenings that appeared regularly for several years, Jean Loret's La Muse Historique (in 1660). His remark, ...comme un conte de la Mere Oye ("...like a Mother Goose story") shows that the term was already familiar. // Events January 1 - Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins advance towards London in support of English Restoration. ...

There are reports, familiar to tourists to Boston, Massachusetts that the original Mother Goose was a Bostonian named Mary Goose who is interred at the Granary Burying Ground. According to Eleanor Early, a Boston travel and history writer of the 1930s and 40s, the original Mother Goose was a real person who lived in Boston in the 1660s. She was reportedly the second wife of Isaac Goose, who brought to the marriage ten children of her own to add to Isaac's ten. After Isaac died, Elizabeth went to live with her eldest daughter, who had married Thomas Fleet, a publisher who lived on Pudding Lane (now Devonshire Street). According to Early, "Mother Goose" used to sing songs and ditties to her grandchildren all day, and other children swarmed to hear them. Finally, her son-in-law gathered her jingles together and printed them.^[2] Boston redirects here. ... Granary Burying Ground. ...

In The Real Personages of Mother Goose (1930), Katherine Elwes Thomas submits that the image and name "Mother Goose", or "Mere L'Oye", may be based upon ancient legends of the wife of King Robert II of France. "Goose-Footed Bertha" is often referred in French legends as spinning incredible tales that enraptured children. The world authority on the Mother Goose tradition, Iona Opie, does not give any credence to either the Elwes Thomas or the Boston suppositions. Robert II the Pious (French: Robert II le Pieux) (March 27, 972 – July 20, 1031) was King of France from 996 to 1031. ... Iona Opie (b. ...

The initiator of the literary fairy tale genre, Charles Perrault, published in 1695 under the name of his son a collection of fairy tales Histoires ou contes du temps passés, avec des moralités, which grew better known under its subtitle, "Contes de ma mère l'Oye" or "Tales of my Mother Goose". Perrault's publication marks the first authenticated starting-point for Mother Goose stories. This article is about the French author. ... Jan. ...

In 1729 there appeared an English translation of Perrault's collection, Robert Samber's Histories or Tales of Past Times, Told by Mother Goose. John Newbery published a compilation of English rhymes, Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle (London, undated, c.1765), which switched the focus from fairy tales to nursery rhymes, and in English this was the prime connotation for Mother Goose until recently. John Newbery (baptized 9 July 1713 – 22 December 1767) was an English publisher of books who specialized in childrens literature. ...

The first public appearance of the Mother Goose stories in the New World was in Worcester, Massachusetts, where printer Isaiah Thomas reprinted Samber's volume under the same title, in 1786.^[3] Nickname: Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Worcester County Settled 1673 Incorporated 1684 Government  - Type Council-manager also known as Plan E  - City Manager Michael V. OBrien  - Mayor Konstantina B. Lukes  - City Council Dennis L. Irish Michael C. Perotto Joseph M. Petty Gary Rosen Kathleen...

Maurice Ravel wrote Ma Mère l'Oye, a suite for the piano, which he then orchestrated for a ballet. Maurice Ravel. ... Ma Mère lOye (Mother Goose), is a musical work by French composer Maurice Ravel. ... A short grand piano, with the lid up. ... For other uses, see Ballet (disambiguation). ...

Other examples

• Books by L. Frank Baum and illustrator W.W. Denslow in the late 1890s featured Mother Goose and Father Goose.

• "Mother Goose" is also the nickname of a character of the movie Mad Max (George Miller, 1979), Jim Goose.

• "Mother Goose" is also the title of a song on the album Aqualung from the progressive rock band Jethro Tull.

• Roberta Williams produced the Mixed-Up Mother Goose series of computer games (now called edutainment) for young children.

• Tales of Brother Goose by Brett Nicholas Moore, a book published in 2006, satirizes Mother Goose stories with modern dialogue and cynical humor.

• eNursery Rhymes by Mother Mouse, a book published in 2006, recasts the traditional Mother Goose rhymes for children of the computer age.

• "Mother Goose" was once told as a moral teaching story to small children in Africa.

American advertisement; premium was Baum's book, 1900

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American childrens literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply... Categories: Stub | Oz ... A male companion to Mother Goose, Father Goose was a recurring character in the works of L. Frank Baum. ... For other uses, see Mad Max (disambiguation). ... George (Miliotis) Miller (born March 3, 1945), is an Academy-Award winning Australian film and television screenwriter, director and producer. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... For the Swedish political music movement, see progg. ... For the 18th-century agriculturist after whom the band was named, see Jethro Tull (agriculturist). ... Roberta Heuer Williams (born February 16, 1953) is a retired computer game designer. ... Mixed-Up Mother Goose cover (1987 version) Roberta Williams Mixed-Up Mother Goose is a computer game first released by Sierra On-Line in 1987. ... Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse. ... Tales of Brother Goose, written by Brett Nicholas Moore, was a satirical book published in May of 2006 which pokes fun at the classic Mother Goose tales. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (563x925, 99 KB) Summary Ad for Baum-Denslow Mother Goose book. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (563x925, 99 KB) Summary Ad for Baum-Denslow Mother Goose book. ...

See also

• List of children's songs
• List of children's stories
• Mother Goose and Grimm, a comic strip
• Luis van Rooten, Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames (1975.

A nursery rhyme is a traditional song or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. ... List of fairy tales and the dates of their earliest known printed version. ... Mother Goose and Grimm is an internationally-syndicated cartoon strip by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Mike Peters. ... Luis van Rooten, an American film actor, was born in Mexico City on November 29, 1906. ...

Notes

Peter and Iona (Archibald) Opie were a husband-and-wife team of folklorists, who applied modern techniques to childrens literature, summarized in their studies, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1952) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959) Their collection of some 1200 titles of childrens books...

External links

• 19th century illustrated Mother Goose, 6 complete versions from different authors/publishers
• "Who was Mother goose?"
• The Real Mother Goose
• Baby's Mother Goose from Golden Books Publishing
• At Project Gutenberg:
  • The Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault translated by Charles Welsh
  • The Real Mother Goose illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright
  • The Only True Mother Goose Melodies by Anonymous
  • Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum
• Mother Goose Clip Art Public domain illustrations of Mother Goose rhymes
• [1] Mother Goose rhymes
• eNursery Rhymes A sample of eNursery Rhymes which recast the traditional Mother Goose rhymes for children of the computer age.