Mother Goose’s Quarto: or Melodies Complete (1825):
“Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater”

2 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater (Peter) (lead character)		[nursery rhyme character]	Munroe and Francis	11
Shirley Pumpkin Eater (Shirley) (details)  Quote: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell, And then he kept her very well. Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater Had another and didn't love her; Peter learnt to read and spell, And then he loved her very well." Not identified by name, but simply as the wife of the central character.		[wife of "Peter Pumpkin Eater"]	Munroe and Francis	2

The earliest-known published version of the nursery rhyme "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" was published in 1825 in Boston, Massachusetts by Monroe and Francis in the volume Mother Goose's Quarto: or Melodies Complete. This book was not intended to publish new material. Rather, it collected the popular nursery rhymes of the time, so the nursery rhyme must have been known for some time before that.

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