 The novel is largely dramatic, however it features comic relief through jokes and sarcasm among those that Lovey Mary meets in the Cabbage Patch.While not as successful as "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch", Rice's 1903 novel was well-enough received to be both dramatized and adapted into a film in 1904 and 1926 respectively.The vast majority of the copies of Rice's novel were published in 1903, while there were also re-prints in years such as 1907.