Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Margaret Sidney

Harriett Lothrop was an American author also known by her pseudonym Margaret Sidney. In addition to writing popular children's stories, she ran her husband Daniel Lothrop's publishing company after his death. After they bought The Wayside country house, they worked hard to make it a center of literary life. She wrote the popular Five Little Peppers series. Lothrop was also the founder of the Children of the American Revolution.