Five Little Peppers and Their Friends

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,