Posted on: 15 May 2011

Digital Rare Book :
Goody Two-Shoes
Published by Mc Loughlin Brothers, New York - 1888

The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a little children's story published by John Newbery in London in 1765. The story popularized the phrase "goody two-shoes", often used to describe an excessively virtuous person.

The anonymous story was published in London, by the John Newbery company, a publisher of popular children's literature. In his introduction to an 1881 edition of the book,[2] Charles Welsh wrote:
“Goody Two-Shoes was published in April 1765, and few nursery books have had a wider circulation, or have retained their position so long. The number of editions that have been published, both in England and America, is legion, and it has appeared in mutilated versions, under the auspices of numerous publishing houses in London and the provinces, although of late years there have been no new issues."

Read more at :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goody_Two_Shoes


 View Post on Facebook