The Girl's Own Book

The Three Bears


Crane, Walter, and Edmund Evans. The Three Bears. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1873.

The story of the three bears and their unwelcome visitor may have been based on a folk tale, but it appeared throughout the nineteenth century with variations in the age of the intruder (an old vagrant woman or a bright-haired child), the relationship among the bears (bachelors sharing a home or a father/mother/cub family), and violence of confrontation (will they eat her or will they not?)  Read more about this book on our blog.

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