Monday's Child Is Fair of Face
Visual Interpretations
Introduction - What roots might such a rhyme have?
The Perfect Models - Seven children make one week
Dramatic Play - Are these children role playing?
Day by Day - Six children and a cherub
Where Are the Children? - Adults steal the limelight
Single Image, Separate Selves - The boys outnumber
the girls
Seven or One? - Who's who in this family portrait?
Textual/Historical Information
This website provides a way to identify the day of the week on which you were born.
http://www.bethanyroberts.com/MondaysChildIsFairofFace.htm
The superstition that the day of the week one is born has some sort of magical power over that person is not all that uncommon around the world. These concepts are discussed in this article by H. Edward Deluzain.
http://www.behindthename.com/articles/1.html
The notion of living up to or measuring oneself against predetermined goals is reflected in business and relates to the concepts within this rhyme’s structure.
http://wearablesbusiness.com/mag/apparel_corporate_identity_living/
Versions and Variants
Textual Versions and Variants - A complete listing of the versions and variants of this rhyme
Visual Versions and Variants - A comparative listing of all associated within Eclipse
Rhyme Specific Bibliography
The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. Arranged and explained by William S. Baring-Gould & Ceil Baring-Gould; illustrated by Walter Crane ... [et al.]; with chapter decorations by E. M. Simon. New York: Bramhall House, c1962.
Opie, Iona Archibald. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.
Edited by Iona and Peter Opie. Reproduced 1977 with corrections. Oxford,
England: Oxford University Press, 1977.
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