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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by American author Alice Hegan Rice, about a southern family humorously coping with poverty. It was highly popular on its release, [1] and has been adapted to film several times. The early editions of the book carry the author's birth name, Alice Caldwell Hegan.
Mrs. Nancy Wiggs is about 50, a cheerful optimist, a good cook and gardener. Tabitha Hazy is Mrs. Wiggs' spinster neighbor; an indecisive pessimist, sour-faced, and a bad cook. Hiram Stubbins is in his late fifties, from Bagdad Junction, a mail-order groom, and a souse. Lovey Mary is about 18, a red-haired runaway orphan girl, devoted to Little ...
Lovey Mary is a 1903 novel by the American writer Alice Hegan Rice. The novel was first serialized in the monthly Century Magazine beginning in December 1902, [1] then was published in book form by The Century Company on February 28, 1903. [2] It was a sequel to the author's 1901 novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
In 1901, Mrs. Wiggs and her children are facing eviction, left destitute when Mr. Wiggs departed many years ago to search for gold in the Klondike.The family owns the shack, but it has a mortgage of $25 and the evil lender is threatening them. Mrs. Wiggs is a laundress who cannot save money because of her charity toward others, often animals.
Beatriz Michelena in Salomy Jane in which she acted alongside Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch co-star House Peters.. Beatriz Michelena, who played Lovey Mary, and House Peters, who played Bob, had been on a film prior to the filming of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch with the California Motion Picture Corporation called Salomy Jane.
The mother and child were seriously injured by the dog, and the baby was pronounced dead at the scene, the Prosecutor’s Office said. The mother and father were taken to the hospital for treatment.
Ronnie Wiggs has been charged with second-degree murder of his wife after he was eerily heard by medical staff in a hospital in Independence saying, “I did it, I killed her, ...
Several of Rice's earlier works were translated into German, French, Danish, and Swedish, and three (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Mr. Opp, and A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill) were dramatized. Alice married Cale Young Rice, a poet and playwright, on December 18, 1902. They spent most of their life traveling the world and becoming known in the ...