Margaret Sidney

1844-06-22 – 1924-08-02

Harriett Mulford Stone was born in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1878, at the age of 34, she began sending short stories to Wide Awake, a children's magazine in Boston. Two of her stories, "Polly Pepper's Chicken Pie" and "Phronsie Pepper's New Shoes", proved to be very popular with readers. Daniel Lothrop, the editor of the magazine, requested that Stone write more. She wrote the now-famous Five Little Peppers series. This series was first published in 1881, the year that Stone married Daniel Lothrop. Daniel had founded the D. Lothrop Company of Boston, which published Harriett's books under her

• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
• Phronsie Pepper
• An Adirondack Cabin
• Five Little Peppers Abroad
• Five Little Peppers Grown Up
• Five little Peppers at school
• Five Little Peppers Midway
• The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House
• Ben Pepper
• Five Little Peppers and Their Friends
• Five little Peppers in the little brown house
• Our Davie Pepper