XPARA PPAR@ ` °TEXT ` ΩLothrop, Harriett Mulford Stone
1844╨1924
writer of children╒s books
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 22, 1844, Harriett Stone was educated at Grove Hall Seminary in New Haven. Her inclination to literature was encouraged in her cultured home. During the 1870s she began contributing stories and verses to various periodicals under the name ╥Margaret Sidney.╙ In 1877 the children╒s magazine Wide Awake published her ╥Polly Pepper╒s Chicken Pie,╙ the first of her stories about the Pepper family. A series of Pepper stories published in Wide Awake during 1880 was published in book form the next year as Five Little Peppers and How they Grew. The book proved enormously popular╤it was still in print 100 years later╤and it was followed by more tales of the family╒s adventures: Five Little Peppers Midway, 1890, Five Little Peppers Grown Up, 1892, Phronsie Pepper, 1897, Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House, 1899, Five Little Peppers Abroad, 1902, Five Little Peppers at School, 1903, Five Little Peppers and Their Friends, 1904, Ben Pepper, 1905, Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House, 1907, and Our Davie Pepper, 1916.
The sequels were less popular than the original, but by 1914 they had collectively sold over 2 million copies. Other books included So As By Fire, 1881, The Pettibone Name, a New England Story, 1882, Hester and Other New England Stories, 1886, A New Departure for Girls, 1886, Dilly and the Captain, 1887, How Tom and Dorothy Made and Kept a Christian Home, 1888, Old Concord: Her Highways and Byways, 1888, Adirondack Cabin, 1890, Rob, a Story for Boys, 1891, Whittier with the Children, 1893, Gingham Bag, 1896, Little Maid of Concord Town, 1898, The Judges╒ Cave, 1900, Sally, Mrs. Tubbs, 1903, Two Little Friends in Norway, 1906, and Little Maid of Boston Town, 1910. In October 1881 she married Daniel Lothrop, founder of the publishing firm of D. Lothrop & Company, which published Wide Awake. In 1883 they bought ╥Wayside,╙ Nathaniel Hawthorne╒s house in Concord, Massachusetts. After her husband╒s death in 1892 she lived in a smaller cottage in Concord. Lothrop was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Old Concord chapter of which she founded, and she was the founder of the auxiliary Children of the American Revolution, of which she was president from 1895 to 1901. She was also instrumental in the preservation and restoration of several historical homes in Concord. She died in San Francisco on August 2, 1924.
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