Mother Goose

In literature, Mother Goose (French: Ma Mère l'Oye; German: Mutter Gans) is the archetypical countrywoman, the teller of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. No specific writer has ever been identified with the name, the first known mention of which 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): comme un conte de la Mere Oye ("Like a Mother Goose story").

External links

• "Who was Mother goose?"
• The Real Mother Goose
• At Project Gutenberg:
• 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