The Queen of Hearts (poem)

"The Queen of Hearts" is an English poem and nursery rhyme based on the characters found on playing cards, by an anonymous author, originally published with three lesser-known stanzas, "The King of Spades", "The King of Clubs", and "The Diamond King", in the British publication The European Magazine, vol. 1, no. 4, in April 1782.^[1] However, Iona and Peter Opie have argued that there is evidence to suggest that these other stanzas were later additions to an older poem.^[2]

^ Reichertz (2000), p. 93. But Reichertz got the issue number wrong. See The European Magazine, and London Review, vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1782, p. 252, on HathiTrust.
^ I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp.427

[Reichertz93-1] Reichertz (2000), p. 93. But Reichertz got the issue number wrong. See The European Magazine, and London Review, vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1782, p. 252, on HathiTrust.

[2] I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp.427

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