Clara Schumann, currently featured on the Google page, could she be...

[sandyRoe]

...the inspiration for Old Mother Hubbard?

[commoner]

More like the Old Woman who lived in a Shoe, with all them kids sandy....not sure of your connection to Mother Hubbard....???

[sandyRoe]

Didn't Ma Hubbard have so many children she didn't know what to do? Or am I getting the nursery rhymes mixed up?

[chelle7272]

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread;
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone:
When she came there,
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.

[2sp_]

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone
When she got there
The cupboard was bare
So the poor little dog got none

Or something like that!

[2sp_]

Must say, Clara's looking good for 193.

[commoner]

lol...all mixed up sandy...Mother hubbard went to the cupboard..which proved to be empty...poor doggy got none....

The other old woman live in a shoe.... had so many children she didn't know what to do....put them to bed with a thrashing eventually.....

[sandyRoe]

I should have googles Old MOther H before I posted.

[chelle7272]

we knew what you meant sandy ;)

[commoner]

lol.. ...Clara actually had eight children in her marriage....but don't think she ever lived in a shoe...;-)

[emmie]

she looks more like Mia Farrow with her various brood.

[commoner]

She was a fair looking lass when young....as good as any film star...:-)

[emmie]

she was a film star, and married at one time to ole blue eyes.