Lothrop, Harriett Mulford Stone, 1844-1924

Novelist.

Harriett M. Stone was born on June 22, 1844 in New Haven, Connecticut. Little was known about her until the 1880s when her story "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" appeared in Wide Awake and she met and married the publisher of that magazine, Daniel Lothrop. Together they bought Nathaniel Hawthorne's home, The Wayside, in Concord, MA.

Besides her career writing for children (under the pen name Margaret Sidney) she also founded the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution in 1895 and was active in historic preservation in Concord, Massachusetts.

From the description of Papers, 1788-1942. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 50481925

Novelist. Harriett M. Stone was born on June 22, 1844 in New Haven, Connecticut. Little was known about her until the 1880s when her story "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" appeared in Wide Awake and she met and married the publisher of that magazine, Daniel Lothrop. Together they bought Nathaniel Hawthorne's home, The Wayside, in Concord, MA.

Besides her career writing for children (under the pen name Margaret Sidney) she also founded the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution in 1895 and was active in historic preservation in Concord, Massachusetts.

From the guide to the Margaret Sidney (Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop) Papers, 1788-1942, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida)