1690, aged forty-two), who is interred at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street. She was either named Elizabeth Foster Goose (1665 – 1758) or Mary Goose (d. She was often referred to in French legends as spinning incredible tales that enraptured children.Īnother, slightly more eccentric theory comes from America – where the original Mother Goose is thought to have been a Bostonian wife of an Isaac Goose. These legends were of the wife of King Robert II of France, known as ‘Berthe la fileuse’ (‘Bertha the Spinner’) or Berthe pied d’oie (‘Goose-Foot Bertha’).
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.As older people tend to generally forget this sorta thing. Mother Goose's forgetful nature, mainly with her glasses could be a hint to her age.Her shirt now pink, belt lilac, skirt yellow with white flowers, miss-matched green and purple stockings, and purple shoes. While her necklace once again changed into yellow bean shaped beads. The next to final attempt gave her heart shaped glasses with a purple hat and yellow flower. The belt white, skirt brown with purple flowers, her stockings now miss-matched blue with teal stripes, and her shoes brown with gray straps. Her hat is brown, flower is blue, top is deep violet, the necklace just now has peach and yellow beads with a solid green pen. Mother Goose then gained her signature mole/beauty mark with the next attempt and had a bigger beak but no lipstick. She also had on green striped stockings on one leg and blue on the other, and on both legs wore dark purple Maryjane like shoes. She wore a big brown belt to hold up a purple skirt with peach-pink flowers on it. Mother Goose wore a pale yellow tank top with many different beads on a necklace and a pink and blue pen. Her beak had lipstick and she lacked her beauty mark/mole. With the next wearing her glasses and pink cap but with a green and blue flower instead of feathers. The next three approaches are closer to how she looks currently. She wore Big, very thin black glasses with bead work on the sides and her currently worn pink hat, along with a blue and purple striped scarf, a pink-purple piece on a white belt, and purple boots with flowers and buckles on them. Her body was pale purple, with her wings being pink. Next she was given a more colorful appearance. She also had on a pink and blue bead necklace, a single sphere necklace, and a beaded necklace with blue, green, and yellow pen. She wore black glasses with yellow lenses, a green cap with pink band and orange-yellow flower. Mother Goose's first beta design was a based on a duck with feather fingers and a curved body. Mother Goose wears a pink sunhat with few blue feathers, along with a sky blue dress with pink flowers printed all over it. She also has a tiny mole near her right eye and a few hairs/feathers on the top of her head.
It's been revealed that Mother Goose had many "beta" images done of her previously, but her current design is a white human-like Goose with dot eyes with a pair of black glasses with eyelash markings in the corners over them.
But when she really focuses and puts her mind on something, even the littlest inspiration can turn into a wonderful short story! Though this does make others laugh, which she seems to enjoy usually. Usually having a habit of losing her glasses, despite them half of the time being on her head. A very friendly and perky goose, Mother Goose tends to appear scatterbrained and clueless to most.