Margaret Sidney was the pen name of American author Harriet Lothrop (1844-1924), who wrote children’s books. She wrote the Five Little Peppers series. She was brought up exposed to culture and free access to her father’s extensive library. During childhood, she was always creating imaginary people. As she grew older, she would continue to write, but would end up destroying the manuscripts. It wouldn’t be until the age of 34 when she would finally get a short story published in a Boston children’s magazine, and the editor requested that she keep writing.
Margaret Sidney made her debut as a novelist in 1881 with Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. Below is a list of Margaret Sidney’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Five Little Peppers Books
Publication Order of Little Maid Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Collections
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Margaret Sidney Synopses: Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney is the first book in the Five Little Peppers series. Times are tough around the Pepper House! The widowed Mrs. Pepper has to sew all day long just to earn enough to afford the rent and to feed the five growing Peppers. But she faces poverty and trouble with a big heart, a smile, and the help of her jolly family: blue-eyed Ben, the eldest and the man of the house at the age of 11; pretty Polly, so eager to cook for the family and make everyone happy and comfortable; and the three littlest Peppers, Joel, Davie, and baby Phronsie.
Five Little Peppers Midway by Margaret Sidney is set five years after the events in The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. Now the Peppers are living with Mr. King in his large mansion, but his spiteful cousin seems determined to ruin their happiness.
