Mary, Mary, quite contrary, goes the nursery rhyme. To whom does it refer?
"Bells, And Cockle Shells, And so my garden grows.</poem> Several printed versions of the 18th century have the lyrics: <poem>Mistress Mary, Quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, And Cockle Shells, Sing cuckolds all in a row.</poem> The last line has the most variation including: Cowslips all in arow [sic]. and With lady bells all in a row. Like many nursery rhymes, it has acquired various historical explanations. These include: No proof has been found that the rhyme was known before the 18th century, while Mary I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots, were contemporaries in"
"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ""Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19626. The most common modern version is: <poem>Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. </poem> The oldest known version was first published in ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"" (1744) with the following lyrics: <poem>Mistress Mary, Quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver"
"the 16th century. The nursery rhyme has been referenced several times in popular culture. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ""Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19626. The most common modern version is: <poem>Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. </poem> The oldest known version was first published in ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"" (1744) with"
"Poor Mary ""Poor Mary"" or ""Poor Jenny"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1377. Lyrics vary considerably for this song. Over a hundred known variations have been collected in Britain since the 1880s, not least in the use of the names, including Jenny, Mary and Sally. Common modern versions include: One child of the group is chosen to be ""Jenny"" or ""Mary"" etc., and has to kneel in the middle of a circle, usually with head in hands. The other children join their hands and walk around"
"The Teletubbies have not had another such hit, making them a one-hit wonder. The song contains two nursery rhymes, the Teletubbies hum along to ""Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"" and the flowers from Teletubbyland sing ""Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"". There was considerable anticipation that it would be the Christmas number one in 1997 and it was the betting favorite at William Hill at odds of 6–4. This race was said to have been decided by the under-10 age group as the rival Spice Girls were popular with seven-year-old girls while the Teletubbies were more popular with younger children. Siobhan Ennis, the"
"Lowell Mason set the nursery rhyme to a melody adding repetition in the verses: <poem> Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb Whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went Mary went, Mary went, Everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school one day, school one day, school one day He followed her to school one day Which was against the rules. It made the children laugh and play, laugh and play, laugh and play, It made the children laugh and play, To"
"A Gander at Mother Goose A Gander at Mother Goose is a 1940 animated short film in the Merrie Melodies series. It was directed by Tex Avery and written by Dave Monahan. It was released to theatres May 25, 1940 by Warner Bros.. The short is essentially a spot gag cartoon with nursery rhymes. The cartoon is narrated by Robert C. Bruce. The first nursery rhyme is Mary, Mary Quite Contrary as played by Katharine Hepburn. The narrator speaks the first line of the rhyme: """"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary----how does your garden grow?"""" to which Mary replies """"I'm terribly sorry,"
"girl."" As the years passed, the contrast between Mary and her sister, Anna, became apparent. While her sister Anna willingly undertook domestic work and increasingly met her parents' expectations, Mary quietly began to reject them. She would resist her mother's world of domesticity throughout her entire life. Her story, ""The Revolt of Mother"" is especially significant in this context, for the story seems to have been written as a tribute to her mother's work, a form of work she had never valued in her mother's lifetime. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help"
"returned to Contrary Mary's garden. Contrary Mary, the eldest daughter of the Widow Piper, believing her beloved Alan is dead, has run away with her brother, Tom-Tom, rather than agree to marry Barnaby. After a second attempt on their lives, Alan and Jane are abandoned in the Forest of No Return. In the Spider's Den, they are protected by the Moth Queen. Old Mother Hubbard's shoe is threatened with foreclosure by Barnaby. Alan and Jane arrive in Toyland, where they find Contrary Mary and Tom-Tom and seek protection from the Master Toymaker, an evil genius who plots with Barnaby to"
"the door opens"". When an anxious Jane points out that the nursery door is always opening, she clarifies ""the Other Door."" Mrs. Banks has Mary and the children find a piano tuner, who happens to be Mary's cousin, Mr. Twigley. When Mary and the children visit, Mr. Twigley tries to unburden himself from seven wishes given to him when he was born. Besides pianos, Mr. Twigley also specializes in songbirds such as nightingales, one of which he releases when he's finished. He also provides music boxes for Mary and the Banks children to dance to. When they return home later,"
"taste (and is potentially tone deaf, as she cannot discern that her singing is bad). However, it must also be noted that Mary is still a sympathetic character: her parents are biased and ineffective, her two older and younger sisters have neatly paired off together, which leaves her alone as the odd one out, and she is probably the Bennet daughter who is most ignored (besides Kitty), which might be why she puts so much effort in trying to impress people, clinging to what she feels makes her stand out from her sisters (possibly a mentally she has also inherited"
"other. Mary has a child, but she is hesitant to tell Jimmy, who as expressed a negative attitude toward children. Mary breaks a vase in Mr. Jesse's apartment, and, believing it to be very valuable, and that she will likely be arrested, scrams, leaving a note for Jimmy but not indicating where she will go. Jimmy looks for her unsuccessfully. A letter arrives addressed to Mary which leads Jimmy to the home where Mary's child is being taken care of, but the workers there say they have not seen Mary in weeks. Jimmy is very taken with the baby, and"
"many versions of the song, the queen is called ""the auld Queen."" This would normally indicate a Queen Dowager or Queen Mother, but in ""this"" context suggests a queen consort who was an older woman, and married to a king of comparable age. If the reference is limited to Queens named Mary, another candidate would be Mary of Guelders (1434–1463), queen to James II, King of Scots. The ballad was catalogued by Francis James Child as Child Ballad # 173. In her highly influential text ""A Room of One's Own"", author Virginia Woolf alludes to the characters in the ballad."
"the other child singing the first verse. The child in the centre then carries out the actions of the following verses, most importantly choosing a partner. The tune is widely known in Europe, and forms the first section of the folk dance tune ""La Bourrée des Galvachers"" from Burgundy, France. The melody was also used by Dmitri Shostakovich in his first Piano Concerto, op.35. Poor Mary ""Poor Mary"" or ""Poor Jenny"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1377. Lyrics vary considerably for this song. Over a hundred"
"for a few moments before conceding, ""Well, you've the nose for it."" Mary Poppins in Travers' books is strict and no-nonsense, asserting her unusual brand of discipline over the four (later five) Banks children in her charge. Mary is very vain and is always admiring herself in the mirror and other reflections. She constantly scolds the children for their ""bad"" behaviour, especially when they point out the magical things she does, for she constantly denies she is anything but a prim and proper lady. Mary only shows her gentler side around her friends, among them the Matchman (Bert), Mrs. Corry,"
"Lullay, mine liking ""Lullay, mine liking"" is a Middle English lyric poem or carol of the 15th century which frames a narrative describing an encounter of the Nativity with a song sung by the Virgin Mary to the infant Christ. The refrain is an early example of an English lullaby; the term ""lullaby"" is thought to originate with the ""lu lu"" or ""la la"" sound made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and ""by"" or ""bye bye"", another lulling sound (for example in the similarly ancient Coventry Carol). There are a number of surviving medieval English verses associated with"
"but destroys the weak: ""She loves you, but far less than she does your race. It may be that you are not wise, and if it seem best, she will drop a tear and crush you into the dust."" Mother Carey Mother Carey is a supernatural figure personifying the cruel and threatening sea in the imagination of 18th- and 19th-century English-speaking sailors. She was a similar character to Davy Jones (who may be her husband). The name seems to be derived from the Latin expression ""Mater cara"" (""Precious Mother""), which sometimes refers to the Virgin Mary. John Masefield described her"
"Mother Carey Mother Carey is a supernatural figure personifying the cruel and threatening sea in the imagination of 18th- and 19th-century English-speaking sailors. She was a similar character to Davy Jones (who may be her husband). The name seems to be derived from the Latin expression ""Mater cara"" (""Precious Mother""), which sometimes refers to the Virgin Mary. John Masefield described her in the poem ""Mother Carey (as told me by the bo'sun)"" in his collection ""Salt Water Ballads"" (1902). Here she and Davy Jones are a fearsome couple responsible for storms and ship-wrecks. In a Cicely Fox Smith poem entitled"
"two younger sisters, Kitty and Lydia, she is seen as being 'silly' by Mr. Bennet, and as not even pretty like her sisters (and for not being 'good-humoured' like Lydia) by Mrs. Bennet. Mary is not very intelligent, but thinks of herself as being wise. Socially inept, Mary is more in the habit of talking ""at"" someone, moralizing, rather than ""to"" them; rather than join in some of the family activities, Mary mostly reads, plays music and sings, although she is often impatient to display her 'accomplishments' and is rather vain and pedantic about them; vanity disguised as disciplines (""""Mary"
"contrast the two Marys stay. There is no mention of the women leaving, but they presumably do so prior to the sabbath, and also prior to the arrival of the guards that are dispatched in the next verses. Mary Magdalene and ""the other Mary"" who is presumed to be ""Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee"" mentioned at . In some traditions the second Mary is considered to be the same person as Salome. Matthew has these two women present for the crucifixion, the entombment, and the resurrection. By specifically mentioning these"
"for candles, but she is taciturn and visibly cold and unpleasant when Dixie, who has befriended Mary, comes round to her house to play, obviously suspicious, and irritated by Dixie's friendliness and persistence, although Mary's father approves of Dixie and her kindness. She ends up in hospital, in the psychiatric ward, because of her mental state, at the end of the book. Mary is a six-year-old with long blonde hair, which is worn in plaits. Although she looks immaculate on the outside, her mother has post-natal depression, and is abusive towards her as a result of her illness. She befriends"
"subject was inspired by Mary Alice ""Allie"" Smith, an orphan living in the Riley home during her childhood. The poem contains four stanzas; the first introduces Annie and the second and third are stories she is telling to young children. Each story tells of a bad child who is snatched away by goblins as a result of his or her misbehavior. The underlying moral and warning is announced in the final stanza, telling children that they should obey their parents and be kind to the unfortunate, lest they suffer the same fate. James Whitcomb Riley was a poet who achieved"
"Maria (played by Mary Martin) sings to comfort the Von Trapp children during a storm. For the 1965 film adaptation, screenwriter Ernest Lehman repositioned this song to a later part of the film wherein Maria (played by Julie Andrews) and the children sing it as part of a marionette show they perform for their father. The song in place of ""The Lonely Goatherd"" was ""My Favorite Things"", which was originally sung earlier in the original musical at the office of the Mother Abbess as a duet between her and Maria, just before she gets sent to serve Captain von Trapp's"
"game and are secondary, explaining the nonsense or irrational lyrics. These chants are unusual inasmuch as they were transmitted from child to child usually without an underlying reason, as opposed to nursery rhymes which were transmitted from adult to child and often contained a moral. Chants may contain girlish references to boyfriends or marriage. Two girls with a long rope stood about apart and turned the rope as other children took turns jumping. If one were not a good jumper, one would be an 'Ever-Laster,' that is, one would perpetually turn the rope. When it was a child's turn to"
"characters. The title of a spooky young adult book by Mary Downing Hahn is ""One for sorrow"". One For Sorrow, Written By Mary Downing Hahn One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) ""One for Sorrow"" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies one sees determines if one will have bad luck. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20096. There is considerable variation in the lyrics used. A common modern version follows: The rhyme has its origins in superstitions connected with magpies, considered a bird of ill omen in some"
"""coded as masculine (agentive, sublime) while Ann is stereotypically feminine in [her] 'die-away' delicacy"". This gendered divide is even reflected in Mary's choice of reading material; she reads books associated with the masculine sublime such as Edward Young's ""Night Thoughts"" (1742–45) and John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"" (1667). Although Ann does not feel the love for Mary that Mary does for her, Mary devotedly nurses Ann and is distraught by her death. The unusual intensity of this relationship is revealed in Wollstonecraft's description of Mary's sorrow: The ladies . . . began to administer some common–place comfort, as, that it was"
"melody <br> It passèd alle minstrelsy. <br> <br> The nightingalë sang also: <br> Her song is hoarse and nought thereto: <br> Whose attendeth to her song <br> And leaveth the first then doth he wrong.<br> ""Balulalow"" includes the rest of the ensemble and acts as a contrast to the first part. It has a different key, rhythm, and an overall more jubilant tone than ""That yongë child"". ""Balulalow"" is meant to be a lullaby for baby Jesus Christ and the soprano solo at the beginning of the movement paints an image of The Virgin Mary singing a lullaby to her"
"Mary Poppins (character) Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers's ""Mary Poppins"" books and all of their adaptations. A magical English nanny, she blows in on the East Wind and arrives at the Banks home at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London, where she is given charge of the Banks children and teaches them valuable lessons with a magical touch. Travers gives Poppins the accent and vocabulary of a real London nanny: cockney base notes overlaid with a strangled gentility. Julie Andrews, who played the character in the 1964 film adaptation, won the"
"before the bowl breaks apart again, sending them back to the real world. Back in the nursery, Mary tells the children that their mother lives on in their memories (""The Place Where Lost Things Go""). The next day, Mary, Jack and the children go to visit Topsy, Mary's eccentric cousin, to see if she can fix the bowl (""Turning Turtle""). Lost on their way home, Mary, John, Annabel and Georgie run into Jack, who, alongside other lamplighters, leads them on their way home (""Trip a Little Light Fantastic""). Development on a sequel to ""Mary Poppins"" had long been gestating in"
"day but her. Minutes later Bing notices his tackle box has been disturbed, and an instant later the kids see the door to the tent is open. And who was it? The little bear cub who'd got lost from his family. The kids all marvel at how cute and tiny he is, but their mother warns that bears can bite and will have a mother and father nearby. In another homage to MGM's classic 1939 musical, Mary quips that she hopes it's somebody they know (referencing both the dual roles performed by the rest of the cast as well as"
"six to four (and discarded another girl not in the set) and some of them are composites of girls in the novel. Mary is a composite of the original Mary and Joyce Emily; although mainly based on the original Mary, in the novel it was Joyce Emily who died in the Spanish Civil War (Mary later dies in a fire instead) and rather more is made of this incident in the play than the novel. Jenny is a composite of the original Jenny and Rose; in spite of her name she has more in common with Rose, since in the"
"verbally attacks the sensitive Fanny for refusing to participate in a play proposed by her cousins. Mary, astonished and angry at Aunt Norris's words, immediately moves and acts to protect Fanny, when no one else in the family will (including Edmund). In general, Mary treats Fanny with consideration, noticing her mistreatment and supporting her. When Henry, Tom, Maria, and Julia all leave the area, Mary begins to seek Fanny's company on a regular basis essentially out of boredom, inviting Fanny to come hear Mary play on the harp and take walks together. Mary begins to appreciate and respect Fanny as"
"movie theatres and the first in Technicolor. The plot, and in some cases the music, bear little resemblance to the original, as Disney had most of the lyrics rewritten and some of the song tempos drastically changed, including the memorable song ""Toyland"", a slow ballad, which was sped up with only the chorus sung in a march-like rhythm. The toy soldiers later appeared in Christmas parades at the Disney theme parks around the world. The film begins as a stage play presented by Mother Goose and her talking goose, Sylvester, about Mary Contrary and Tom Piper, who are about to"