

Monstress #1
Added to listRead 2010 To 2019with 2463 books.

Oh wow, that was so much more racist than I was expecting. 😬
And it's not just a product of the times, Andrew Lang was alive and writing about these things at the same time, and he didn't go off on tirades about "primitive cultures" and their silly games.
Disregarding that, this is a history of nursery rhymes in the sense that it's a list of various rhymes and games that the author knew, and the approximate time frame in which they were sung/played.
Oh wow, that was so much more racist than I was expecting. 😬
And it's not just a product of the times, Andrew Lang was alive and writing about these things at the same time, and he didn't go off on tirades about "primitive cultures" and their silly games.
Disregarding that, this is a history of nursery rhymes in the sense that it's a list of various rhymes and games that the author knew, and the approximate time frame in which they were sung/played.