The Century Co. publishers, New York; MCMIII [1903] publication; copyright 1901; smaller hardbound; very good condition with minor page edge wear; boards very good; pages are cut unevenly; no dust jacket.
 
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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, 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 was a model for the book's main character.
 
The book is set in a white turn-of-the-century urban slum, with two somewhat wealthy individuals wanting to help the inhabitants. The title character is a widow with several daughters—whom she named after the continents, thinking that geographical names were refined—and an employed young son...