While not associated with the nursery rhyme content-wise, there was a work titled Mother Hubbard’s Tale by Edmund Spenser published in 1591. But that involved an ape and a fox. In 1906, Thomas ...

If Old Mother Hubbard had Instagram, her dog would be a social media star. Sarah Catherine Martin created the character of Old Mother Hubbard in 1805, modeling the old lady after the housekeeper ...