| 词条 | The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes |
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PlotGoody Two-Shoes is a variation of the Cinderella story. The fable tells of Goody Two-Shoes, the nickname of a poor orphan girl named Margery Meanwell, who goes through life with only one shoe. When a rich gentleman gives her a complete pair, she is so happy that she tells everyone that she has "two shoes". Later, Margery becomes a teacher and marries a rich widower. This earning of wealth serves as proof that her virtuousness has been rewarded, a popular theme in children's literature of the era.[2]PublicationThe anonymous story was published in London by the John Newbery company, a publisher of popular children's literature.[3] In his introduction to an 1881 edition of the book,[4] Charles Welsh wrote: {{quote|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.}}The anonymous authorThe story was later attributed to the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, though this is disputed. Because Goldsmith frequently wrote for pay, and because of his copious fiction in essays (e.g., The Bee and Citizen of the World), the attribution to Goldsmith is plausible. Washington Irving was one supporter of Goldsmith's authoring the book; he said: "Several quaint little tales introduced in Goldsmith's Essays show that he had a turn for this species of mock history; and the advertisement and title-page bear the stamp of his sly and playful humor."[5] However, the book has also been attributed to Newbery himself and to Giles Jones, a friend of Newbery's.[6] "Booksellers" (publishers) such as Newbery would frequently pay authors for anonymous work, and no certain evidence of attribution has emerged.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}} Origin of the phrase "goody two-shoes"Although The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is credited with popularizing the term "goody two-shoes", the actual origin of the phrase is unknown. For example, it appears a century earlier in Charles Cotton's Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque (1670):[7]
The name is used herein to point out the mayoress' comparative privilege; "Goody" (a corruption of "Goodwife"),[8] being the equivalent of "Mrs." and "Two-shoes", implicitly comparing her to people who have no shoes. References1. ^{{cite book| authors=Feinsilber, Mike and Elizabeth Webber |title=Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions| publisher= Merriam-Webster| location=Springfield, Mass.| year=1999| page= 234}} 2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=LatJmhoQjw8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=virtuous+reward+children's+literature&ots=JKto3NqpmY&sig=8O7Hhx4sISX7GSC1AO41iL18_3w#v=onepage&q=virtue&f=false|title=The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century|last=O'Malley|first=Andrew|date=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415942997|language=en}} 3. ^Matthew O Grenby (2013). "Little Goody Two-Shoes and Other Stories: Originally Published by John Newbery". p. vii. Palgrave Macmillan 4. ^{{cite book| title=Goody Two-Shoes: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766 [EBook #13675]| authors=Anonymous & Charles Welsh (Introduction)| publisher = Griffith & Farran (Successors to Newbery & Harris)| url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13675 |edition=(released as ebook October 8, 2004) 1881 Reprint of the 1766 |location=London |date=1881}} 5. ^{{cite book| author=Irving, Washington| url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7993 |title= Life of Oliver Goldsmith| ISBN= 1-58963-236-2}} 6. ^{{cite book| author=Thwaite, Mary F. |title=From Primer to Pleasure in Reading| edition= 2d| location= London| publisher= Library Association| year= 1972| page= 50}} 7. ^{{cite journal|title=Goody Two-Shoes|journal=American Notes and Queries|volume=5|issue=1|date=May 3, 1890|pages=3}} 8. ^{{cite book|last1=Farmer|first1=John Stephen|last2=Henley|first2=W.E.|title=Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... with Synonyms in English, French ... Etc. Compiled by J.S. Farmer [and W.E. Henley], Volume 3|date=1893|publisher=Harrison & Sons|location=Princeton University|page=180|edition=ebook digitized 2 April 2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xqJBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=slang+for+goodwife&source=bl&ots=ZtiH4OiRJl&sig=VQ2KBS1pfrMBvMLUrJQuZogbSyY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBmoVChMIjKvMobHwxwIVTOqACh09PgBx#v=onepage&q=slang%20for%20goodwife&f=false|accessdate=12 September 2015}} External links{{Commons category|Goody Two-Shoes}}{{wikisource|Goody Two-Shoes}}{{Portal|Children's literature}}
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