The story was recorded by English writer and poet Robert Southey (1774 -1843), and first published in 1837. It could be that R. Southey possibly heard an animal story starring an old cunning fox "Silverlocks", and confused the "vixen" with a synonym for an unpleasant malicious old woman.
The story has been adapted to film, opera, and other media.
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Through simple images and texts, the sophisticated and profound notions are explained in an accessible way, things that even adults can sometimes hardly perceive. Children are introduced to the rational (small) universe of adults, with its various fields, such as: biology, physics, geography, logic, history, maths, philosophy, abstraction, etc.
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From the mid-1840s onwards, the poet and painter Edward Lear made illustrated nonsense alphabets (also called "picture alphabets") as gifts for children of his acquaintance. Unfortunately, it is not known the name of the child or children for whom this alphabet was created.
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