 Mother Goose's name was identified with English collections of stories and nursery rhymes popularised in the 17th century.English readers would already have been familiar with Mother Hubbard, a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published the satire Mother Hubberd's Tale in 1590, as well as with similar fairy tales told by "Mother Bunch" (the pseudonym of Madame d'Aulnoy) in the 1690s.An early mention appears in an aside in a versified French chronicle of weekly events, Jean Loret's "La Muse Historique", collected in 1650.