Kentucky novel, of mingled humor and sentiment, about a plucky widow and her children who live in a struggling community along the railroad tracks.

"[This book] recounts the literary career of Alice Hegan Rice and her poet husband, Cale, in the context of the other writers in Louisville during the first two

Amy Lowell's contemporaries, writing at a time when lesbians were invisible, described her as an old maid. But as Lillian Faderman argues, Lowell wrote "some of

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by Alice Hegan Rice, telling of a southern family's humorously coping with poverty. The book was highly popular