Rice, Alice Hegan

Rice, Alice Hegan

▪ American author
born January 11, 1870, Shelbyville, Kentucky, U.S.
died February 10, 1942, Louisville, Kentucky

      American novelist and short-story writer most widely known for her 1901 best-seller, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, a book often translated, staged, and filmed since its publication.

      Rice was the daughter of a successful art dealer. At the age of 16 she served as an aide at a mission Sunday school in a Louisville slum known as the Cabbage Patch. With Louise Marshall, she later founded (1910) the Cabbage Patch Settlement House in Louisville, which grew to include a paid staff and more than 100 volunteers. In addition to Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Rice wrote many other novels noted for pathos and humour. Her autobiography, The Inky Way, appeared in 1940.

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