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Margaret Sidney
1844–1924
Best remembered for the warm, spirited Five Little Peppers books, this American writer brought lively family life and resilience to generations of young readers. Writing as Margaret Sidney, she also played an important role in publishing after her husband's death.
12 Audiobooks
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
by Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers Abroad
by Margaret Sidney
The Adventures of Joel Pepper
by Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers Grown Up
by Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers Midway
by Margaret Sidney
Five little Peppers in the Little Brown House
by Margaret Sidney
Phronsie Pepper : The youngest of the "Five Little Peppers"
by Margaret Sidney
Our Davie Pepper
by Margaret Sidney
Ben Pepper
by Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers at School
by Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers and their Friends
by Margaret Sidney
About the author
Born Harriett Mulford Stone in New Haven, Connecticut, she wrote under the pen name Margaret Sidney and became one of the best-known American children's authors of the late 19th century. She is most closely associated with the Five Little Peppers series, which began in 1881 and grew into a long-running set of stories about the Pepper family.
Her life in books was not limited to writing. After the death of her husband, publisher Daniel Lothrop, she took an active role in managing his publishing business, linking her career as an author with the wider literary world.
She lived from June 22, 1844, to August 2, 1924. Along with her fiction for young readers, she is remembered for helping shape the culture of children's reading in the United States during a period when family stories and serialized books were reaching a wide audience.