The Mother Goose stories and rhymes were popularized in the 1700's in English-language literature, although no specific writer has ever been identified with such a name.
According to Eleanor Early, a Boston travel and history writer of the 1930's and '40's, the original Mother Goose was a real person who lived in Boston in the 1660's. She was reportedly the second wife of Isaac Goose, who brought to the marriage six children of her own to add to Isaac's ten. 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, a publisher who lived on Pudding Lane, gathered her jingles together and printed them.
In addition to being the purported author of nursery rhymes, Mother Goose is herself the title character of one such rhyme:
"Old Mother Goose, when she wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air on a very fine gander.
Jack's mother came in, and caught the goose soon,
And mounting its back, flew up to the moon."
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