[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Easter Bunny"

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Mike Sutton now has "Easter bunnie" at May, 1881.

https://www.bestthinking.com/thinkers/science/social_sciences/sociology/mike-sutton?tab=blog&blogpostid=22774

or http://bit.ly/1CpxZBq

I don't know if he has full-access to Godey's Lady's Book, but I
verified the issue and text by looking in a couple different
historical databases.

-- Bonnie


On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> Easter bunny (OED 1900)
>
> 1890 _Minneapolis Journal_ 7 Apr. (firstmention.com)  A rabbit foot makes a=
>  doubly appropriate favor, for the Easter bunny is a famous personage at th=
> is season of the year.  Rabbits of spun sugar or ice, candy eggs of every s=
> hade and color and clear candy chickens will all appear at some time during=
>  the Easter season.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>

> Quite possibly, it was Baumbach=92s book that brought the Easter Rabbit to =
> a widespread audience in the US, and in a few short years it was both well-=
> known, and beginning the transformative process into the Easter Bunny, who =
> had its FirstMention in the April 7, 1890 Minneapolis Journal.
>
> [http://www.firstmention.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/easter-bunny-minnea=
> polis-j-04-7-1890.jpg]<http://www.firstmention.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/=
> 03/easter-bunny-minneapolis-j-04-7-1890.jpg>
>
> And from there, it was only a short hop to=85.mmmmmm=85. Just Born Marshmal=
> low Peeps.
>
> - See more at: http://www.firstmention.com/easterbunny/#sthash.JuQawzgz.dpu=
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