| 词汇 | mother goose |
| 词源 | Mother Goose. The famous book of nursery rhymes often called Mother Goose’s Melodies is said to have been printed in Boston in 1719 by Thomas Fleet, from verses his mother-in- law, Mrs. Elizabeth Goose, created or remembered and repeat- ed. There is no doubt that Mrs. Goose (1665–1757) existed. She was born Elizabeth Foster in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and at the age of 27 married Isaac Goose (formerly Vergoose) of Boston, inheriting 10 stepchildren and bearing six children of her own. One of her daughters married the printer Fleet, who had a shop on Pudding Lane in Boston. At this point the facts become unclear, yielding, at any rate, many a good story. |
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