(Q108692918)
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1687
And mother Hubbard, in her homely dreſs / Has ſharply blam’d a Britiſh Lioneſs […]. (English)
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1 June 1805Gregorian
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1870
597
Mother Hubbard.
The old lady whose whole time seems to have been devoted to her dog, who always kept her on the trot, and always made game of her. Her temper was proof against this wilfulness on the part of her dog, and her politeness never forsook her […]. (English)
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1915
150–151
Hubbard, Mother
Hubbard, Mother, the old lady who in the English nursery jingle went to the cupboard to find her poor dog a bone, has been plausibly identified with St. Hubert and patron of dogs and of the chase. (English)
Edmund Spenser, in Mother Hubbard’s Tale (1591), uses the name simply as that of an old wife, who tells a story of Reynard and the ape, to relieve the weariness of the poet during a spell of sickness. (English)
1865
252
Mother Hubbard.
Mother Hubberd.
The feigned narrator of Spenser’s poem entitled “Mother Hubberd’s Tale,” which is a satire upon the common modes of rising in Church and State, and which purports to be one of several tales told to the author by his friends, to beguile a season of sickness. (English)
The subject of an old and well‐known nursery rhyme. (English)
The Athenæum
2887
24 February 1883Gregorian
248
Old Mother Hubbard. (English)
This seems to be the first appearance on the literary stage, at least in England, of this eminent person. Yet she was evidently a well‐known figure even then. To mention her honoured name was enough. Her great reputation made any fuller record unnecessary. Not to know her argued oneself unknown. But at this distance of time we wonder who she was, and of what origin. (English)
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine
42
September 1888Gregorian
432–433
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Our One Hundred Questions. (English)
13. With what saint may Mother Hubbard be identified, and why ?
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Old Mother Hubbard & her Dog
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