 Lovey Mary (book)

Lovey Mary is a 1903 novel by American writer Alice Hegan Rice, which is a sequel to her 1901 novel "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch".It is about an orphaned girl named Lovey Mary who runs away from her orphanage and is taken in by a woman named Mrs. Wiggs in an area of urbanized Kentucky known as the Cabbage Patch, an area which was inspired by Rice's personal experiences growing up in Kentucky.