A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766 Anonymous creator Welsh, Charles 1850-1914 text utu 2004 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Goody Two-Shoes" by Anonymous is a children's story published in 1765. It tells the tale of Margery Meanwell, a poor orphan girl who possesses only one shoe until a gentleman's kindness changes her fortune. Her joy at having two complete shoes earns her the nickname Goody Two-Shoes. Through virtue and determination, she becomes a teacher and eventually marries well. This influential work helped establish children's literature as a genre and popularized the phrase "goody two-shoes" still used today. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #37877 (Illustrated in color of modern style) #45278 (Illustrated in color of ancient style) #21428 (Illustrated in color) #13675 (Illustrated with small old Woodcuts) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Little_Goody_Two-Shoes Release date is 2004-10-08 Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Tom Roch, Leah Moser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Original publication data not identified Orphans -- Juvenile fiction PZ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13675 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13675 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133325.0 13675