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  2. Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Wikipedia

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    1837. " Goldilocks and the Three Bears " is a 19th-century English fairy tale of which three versions exist. The original version of the tale tells of an impudent old woman who enters the forest home of three anthropomorphic bachelor bears while they are away. She eats some of their porridge, sits down on one of their chairs, breaks it, and ...

  3. English literature - Wikipedia

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    The first page of Beowulf. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. [12]

  4. History of English - Wikipedia

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    e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...

  5. The Story of English - Wikipedia

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    The Story of English is a nine-part television series, produced in 1986, detailing the development of the English language. [1] The Story of English is also a companion book, also produced in 1986. The book and the television series were written by Robert MacNeil, Robert McCrum, and William Cran. [2] The book has been revised twice, once in ...

  6. Old English literature - Wikipedia

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    e. Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. [ 1 ] The 7th-century work Cædmon's Hymn is often considered as the oldest surviving poem in English, as it ...

  7. Jack and the Beanstalk - Wikipedia

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    "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" was published in London by J. Roberts in the 1734 second edition of Round About Our Coal-Fire. [1] In 1807, English writer Benjamin Tabart published The History of Jack and the Bean Stalk, possibly actually edited by William and/or Mary Jane Godwin. [9] The story is older than these accounts.

  8. The Three Little Pigs - Wikipedia

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    The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published on June 19, 1890, and crediting Halliwell as his source. [5] The earliest published version of the story is from Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1853, and has three little pixies and a fox in place of the three pigs and a wolf. The first pixy ...

  9. List of claimed first novels in English - Wikipedia

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    There are multiple candidates for first novel in English partly because of ignorance of earlier works, but largely because the term novel can be defined so as to exclude earlier candidates. (The article for novel contains detailed information on the history of the terms "novel" and "romance" and the bodies of texts they defined in a historical ...

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