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"The Queen of Hearts" is a poem based on the characters found on playing cards, by an anonymous author, that was first published in The European Magazine in April 1782. Published alongside three other poems, each on a different suit, "The Queen of Hearts" proved the most popular, and became well known as a nursery rhyme. This illustration is from republication in a 1901 edition of Mother Goose.