Lovey Mary

'Lovey Mary' is a novel by American writer Alice Hegan Rice. 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. The novel is largely dramatic, however it features comic relief through jokes and sarcasm among those that Lovey Mary meets in the Cabbage Patch.