Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch


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Manusript of Rice's "Mrs. Wiggs and the Cabbage Patch," plus an undated letter from Rice to "Mr. Smith."







Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch


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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch


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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by Alice Hegan Rice, telling of a southern family's humorously coping with poverty. The book was highly popular on its release, and has been adapted to film several times. Rice was inspired to write the book during her "philanthropic work in a Louisville, Kentucky slum area, where she met an optimistic and cheerful woman" who served as the model for the book's main character. In 1904 the book was premiered as a Broadway play starring Madge Carr Cook. As of 1997, the book had sold more than 650,000 copies in a hundred printings.




Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch


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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch


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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by American author Alice Hegan Rice, telling of a southern family's humorously coping with poverty. The book was highly popular on its release, and has been adapted to film several times.Rice was inspired to write the book during her "philanthropic work in a Louisville, Kentucky slum area, where she met an optimistic and cheerful woman" who served as the model for the book's main character.The setting of the book is a white turn-of-the-century urban slum whose inhabitants two somewhat wealthy individuals want to help. The title character is a widow with several daughters-named after the continents, because she thinks that geographical names are refined-and an employed young son, who dies before the middle of the book.




Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch


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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.




Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Wiggs traveled to eternity by the alco hol route, she buried his faults with him, and for want of better virtues to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.