Editing Mother Goose (section)

==Nursery tales and rhymes==
{{Main|Tales of Mother Goose}}
[[File:Houghton FC6.P4262.Eg729s - Perrault, frontispiece.jpg|thumb|upright=0.65|Frontispiece from the first English translation, 1729]]
[[Charles Perrault]], one of the initiators of the [[literary fairy tale]] genre, published a collection of such tales in 1695 called ''[[Histoires ou contes du temps passé|Histoires ou contes du temps passés, avec des moralités]]'' under the name of his son, which became better known under its subtitle of ''Contes de ma mère l'Oye'' or ''Tales of My Mother Goose''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Motifs: An Introduction to French|last1=Jansma|first1=Kimberly|last2=Kassen|first2=Margaret|publisher=Thomson Higher Education|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4130-2810-2|location=Boston, MA|page=456}}</ref> Perrault's publication marks the first authenticated starting-point for Mother Goose stories. An English translation of Perrault's collection, [[Robert Samber]]'s ''Histories or Tales of Past Times, Told by Mother Goose'', appeared in 1729 and was reprinted in America in 1786.<ref>Charles Francis Potter, "Mother Goose", ''Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legends'' II (1950), p. 751f.</ref>

[[Nursery rhyme]]s were once believed to have been published in [[John Newbery]]'s compilation ''{{visible anchor|Mother Goose's Melody}}, or, Sonnets for the cradle''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/mothergoosesmelo00pridiala |title=Mother Goose's melody: Prideaux, William Francis, 1840–1914 |access-date=14 February 2012}}</ref> published some time in London in the 1760s, but the first edition was probably published in 1780 or 1781 by Thomas Carnan, Newbery's stepson and successor. Although this edition was registered with the [[Stationers' Company]] in 1780, no copy has ever been confirmed, and the earliest surviving edition is dated 1784.<ref>Nigel Tattersfield in ''Mother Goose's melody ...'' (a facsimile of an edition of c. 1795, Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2003).</ref> The name "Mother Goose" has been associated in the English-speaking world with children's poetry ever since.<ref name="IntrotoPoetry">{{cite book |last1=Driscoll |first1=Michael |last2=Hamilton |first2=Meredith |last3=Coons |first3=Marie |title=A Child's Introduction Poetry |publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers |year=2003 |page=10 |isbn=978-1-57912-282-9 |url=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-Childs-Introduction-to-Poetry/Michael-Driscoll/e/9781579122829}}</ref>