9/22/2023 0 Comments Story of mother goose![]() In ‘The Real Personages of Mother Goose’ (1930), Katherine Elwes-Thomas has argued that the image and name ‘Mother Goose’, or ‘Mère L’Oye’ may have been based upon ancient legends. Loret’s remark, comme un conte de la Mère Oye (‘like a Mother Goose story’) shows that the term was readily understood. An early mention appears in an aside in a French versified chronicle of weekly happenings, Jean Loret’s La Muse Historique, collected in 1650. They would also have known similar fairy tales told by ‘Mother Bunch’ (the pseudonym of Madame d’Aulnoy) in the 1690s. Seventeenth century English readers would have been familiar with ‘Mother Hubbard’, a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published his satire Mother Hubberd’s Talein (in 1590). Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World. ![]()
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