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- Introduction
- Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2)
- Creators & Guests
- Mother Goose in Prose - L. Frank Baum - Audiobook - BookBeat
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We may take it to be true that Fleet's wife was of the Vergoose family, and that the name was often contracted to Goose. But the rest of the story is unsupported by any evidence whatever. In fact, all that Mr. Eliot knew of it was the statement of the late Edward A.
Mother Goose in Prose - L. Frank Baum - Audiobook - BookBeat
Crowninshield, of Boston, that he had seen Fleet's edition in the library of the American Antiquarian Society. Repeated researches at Worcester having failed to bring to light this supposed copy, and no record of it appearing on any catalogue there, we may dismiss the entire story with the supposition that Mr. Eliot misunderstood the remarks made to him.
Indeed, as Mr. William H.
Whitmore points out in his clever monograph upon Mother Goose Albany, , it is very doubtful whether in a Boston printer would have been allowed to publish such "trivial" rhymes. Whitmore, "were fed upon Gospel food, and it seems extremely improbable that an edition could have been sold. Singularly enough, England's claim to the venerable old lady is of about the same date as Boston's. There lived in a town in Sussex, about the year , an old woman named Martha Gooch. She was a capital nurse, and in great demand to care for newly-born babies; therefore, through long years of service as nurse, she came to be called Mother Gooch.
This good woman had one peculiarity: she was accustomed to croon queer rhymes and jingles over the cradles of her charges, and these rhymes "seemed so senseless and silly to the people who overheard them" that they began to call her "Mother Goose," in derision, the term being derived from Queen Goosefoot, the mother of Charlemagne. The old nurse paid no attention to her critics, but continued to sing her rhymes as before; for, however much grown people might laugh at her, the children seemed to enjoy them very much, and not one of them was too peevish to be quieted and soothed by her verses.
At one time Mistress Gooch was nursing a child of Mr.
Ronald Barclay, a physician residing in the town, and he noticed the rhymes she sang and became interested in them. The earliest English edition of Mother Goose's Melodies that is absolutely authentic was issued by John Newbury of London about the year , and the first authentic American edition was a reprint of Newbury's made by Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Mass.
None of the earlier editions, however, contained all the rhymes so well known at the present day, since every decade has added its quota to the mass of jingles attributed to "Mother Goose. It is simply a result of the greater refinement of modern civilization that they have been relegated to oblivion, while the real gems of the collection will doubtless live and grow in popular favor for many ages. While I have taken some pains to record the various claims to the origin of Mother Goose, it does not matter in the least whether she was in reality a myth, or a living Eliza Goose, Martha Gooch or the "Mere Oye" of Perrault.
The songs that cluster around her name are what we love, and each individual verse appeals more to the childish mind than does Mother Goose herself. Many of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselves, telling their story tersely but completely; there are others which are but bare suggestions, leaving the imagination to weave in the details of the story. Perhaps therein may lie part of their charm, but however that may be I have thought the children might like the stories told at greater length, that they may dwell the longer upon their favorite heroes and heroines.