[citation needed] Rice had a relatively privileged upbringing, but her views on life changed when she went to a mission for Sunday School that was in a slum in Louisville called the "Cabbage Patch".

The mission was interrupted by a group of troublesome boys, but luckily Rice was able to defuse the situation by enticing them with a story she just read.

[2] Several of Rice's earlier works were translated into German, French, Danish, and Swedish, and three (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Mr. Opp, and A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill) were dramatized.

They spent most of their life traveling the world and becoming known in the literary scenes of New York and London.

[3] After living a life full of helping and writing about others, she died on February 10, 1942, at her home in Louisville, Kentucky.