Mother Goose

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The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymesoften published as (Old) Mother Goose's Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one nursery rhyme.A Christmas pantomime called Mother Goose is often performed in the United Kingdom.

Mother Goose is generally depicted in literature and book illustration as an elderly country woman in a tall hat and shawl, a costume identical to the peasant costume worn in Wales in the early 20th century, but is sometimes depicted as a goose .

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was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales.

The best known of his tales include  Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), La Belle au bois Dormant (The Sleeping Beauty).

   

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In 1697 he published Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals (Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé), subtitled Tales of Mother Goose .This “Mother Goose” has never been identified as a person, but used to refer to popular and rural storytelling traditions in proverbial phrases of the time.

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