Mother Goose
Mother Goose was a poet, storyteller and writer.
Also recorded as Mother Gooſe · Mrs. Goose · Dame Goose · Ma’am Goose
Mother Goose
Blanche Fisher Wright · Dover Publications · Public domain
- Occupation
- poet · storyteller · writer
- Known for
- The Tales of my Mother Goose · Mother Goose’s Melody
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Mother Goose was a poet, storyteller and writer.
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Biography
Mother Goose is recorded as poet, storyteller and writer.
Illustrations from the novel A Book of Nursery Rhymes.
Clara E. Atwood · A Book of Nursery Rhymes
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Life and career
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Life and career
Explore 1772–2012
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1772
Mother Goose’s Melody.
1979
Crime over Casco & The Mother Goose murders (1979) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1988
The Mother Goose Book is dated 1988.
2012
Goosey goosey gander: Mother Goose of animal verse (2012) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q142305: Mother Goose
Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1153370859, Mother goose medley.
Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- “Mother Goose”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q142305: Mother GooseWikimedia Foundation
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1153370859, Mother goose medley.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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