Narrative

Lessons for Little Learners

7. Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog, however, also followed on two important translations from France. First, Charles Perrault’s Histories, ou contes du temps passé, avec des Moralitez (1697), a collection of eight fairy tales translated into English as Histories, or Tales of Past Times by Robert Samber in 1729, but later known as the tales of Mother Goose.