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Which versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears do you know? The one where Goldilocks is caught by the bears and legs it off into the forest? The one where the bears gobble her up? Or the one where
Goldilocks is a delinquent old woman who winds up impaled on St Paul s Cathedral?
Do not adjust your browser. Although the best-known versions of the fairy tale spring from Robert Southey and Joseph Cundall, in fact one of the earliest known Three Bears adaptations was written by Eleanor Mure in 1831. And it s got quite the denouement.