Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch

Description:

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.

subjects: Female friendship,  Fiction,  Poor families,  Poor women,  Rural families,  Single mothers,  Urban poor,  Widows,  Women benefactors,  Family,  Children's fiction,  Kentucky, fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  Poverty,  Runaway husbands,  Desertion and non-support,  Fatherless families,  Children,  Death

Places: Louisville (Ky.),  Southern States