Lucy Locket
Composer:
James Orchard Halliwell
Genre: Childrens,World / Folk
Decade: before 1923
Submitted by: Russell Ambrose
Description:
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (21 June 1820 – 3 January 1889) was an English Shakespearean scholar, and a collector of English Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales.
The son of Thomas Halliwell, he was born in London and was educated privately and at Jesus College, Cambridge.[1] He devoted himself to antiquarian research, particularly into early English literature. In 1839 he edited Sir John Mandeville's Travels; in 1842 published an Account of the European manuscripts in the Chetham Library, besides a newly discovered metrical romance of the 18th century (Torrent of Portugal). In 1842 he published the first edition of Nursery Rhymes of England followed by Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales, containing the first printed version of the Three Little Pigs.[2] In 1846 he published a version of the Christmas carol The Twelve Days of Christmas.[3]
by: Russell Ambrose