 In 1903, the novel was published mainly in New York City by the Century Company, yet other publishing locations and companies such as The Montreal News Company in Montreal, William Briggs in Toronto, and Hodder & Stoughton in London published the novel as well.In 1904, the novel was dramatized, along with "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch", by Anne Crawford Flexner, and adapted into a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures film in 1926, directed by King Baggot and starring Bessie Love as Lovey Mary.Only 6 of the 7 original reels of film for this adaptation survive until today, and these exist in the MGM preservation.