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Margaret Sidney was the pseudonym of Harriett Mulford Stone (1844-1924). She was an American author, 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. The success of Harriett’s short stories prompted her to write the nowfamous 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, who published Harriett’s books under her pseudonym, Margaret Sidney. Harriett eventually wrote over 30 books; in addition to the Five Little Peppers series she wrote a number of books on patriotic themes, including A Little Maid of Concord Town (1898) and A Little Maid of Boston (1910).

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Times are tough around the little brown house! The widowed Mrs. Pepper sews all day long just to earn enough to pay the rent and to feed the five growing Peppers. But she faces poverty and trouble with a stout heart, a smiling face, and the help of her jolly brood: 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. A favorite of children, parents, and teachers for generations, this heartwarming classic first appeared in 1880. Since then, it has inspired countless young imaginations with its tender tales in which courage and good cheer overcome adversity.

The Five Little Peppers book series was created by Margaret Sidney. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural "little brown house." In this book Joel and Davie Pepper are away at boarding school trying to learn manners and self-reliance while their sister Polly must cope with gossips and snobs at her school. But when a terrible train accident leaves the brakeman's wife a widow with children to support, Polly tries to help them by raising money. Can she make it work?