Friday, May 22, 2009

Mother Twaddle and her son Jack


from the 1807 book
[The history of Mother Twaddle and the Marvellous Achievements of her Son Jack]
Mother Twaddle is the first edition of a version of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk in verse.

2 comments:

ruthie said...

have just spent a wonderful while catching up on all the delicious things you have posted, thank you!!

Hermes said...

Thanks Ruthie, its quite fun tracing the history and variations of some of these old tales.