"Monday's Child" (1836)

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The "Monday's child is fair in face..." poem has been discussed on the
American Name Society list. I don't know what Fred Shapiro (Yale Dictionary of
Quotations) will have, but the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has A. E. Bray, from
1838. I found the same author's work, dated 1836; unfortunately, I couldn't
find any earlier. I looked all over "children's poetry" of this period.
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Friday's Child at Everything2.com
... Monday's child is fair of face Tuesday's child is full of grace
Wednesday's child
is full ... I could find cites Traditions of Devonshire (AE Bray), 1838
(which is ...
www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=847519 - 23k - Cached - Similar pages
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first day of the week [WAS: A Language Puzzle]
... Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child
is ... The earliest version they knew of was 1838, and instead of 'the
Sabbath ...
alt.english.usage - Jun 22 2001, 3:10 pm by Donna Richoux - 277 messages - 77
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A DESCRIPTION
OF THE
PART OF DEVONSHIRE
BORDERING ON
THE TAMY AND THE TAVY;
ITS
NATURAL HISTORY,
MANNERS, CUSTOMS, SUPERSTITIONS, SCENERY, ANTIQUITIES,
BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT PERSONS,
&c. &c.
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO
ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ.

BY MRS. BRAY

IN THREE VOLUMES.--VOL.II

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
MDCCCXXXVI. (1836--ed.)
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Pg. 287:
The fortunes of children are likewise considered to be very much regulated by
the day on which they were born. Here is a poetical adage on the subject
common in our town:--

"Monday's child is fair in face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,

Pg. 288:
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for its living;
And a child that's born on a Christmas day,
Is fair and wise, good and gay."