 It is generally accepted that the term does not refer to any particular person.Charles Perrault, one of the initiators of the literary fairy tale genre, published a collection of such tales in 1695 called "Histoires ou contes du temps passés, avec des moralités" under the name of his son, which became better known under its subtitle of "Contes de ma mère l'Oye" or "Tales of My Mother Goose".Perrault's publication marks the first authenticated starting-point for Mother Goose stories.