Five Little Peppers


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Five Little Peppers

saccharine story of five orphans. [Am. Lit.: Harriet Lothrop Five Little Peppers and How They Grew in Hart, 495]
See: Sentimentality
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As a child I loved Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, by Margaret Sidney, a story about the hardships of a turn--of--thecentury American family.
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Harriet Lothrop, writing under the name Margaret Sidney, saw the serial publication of her work Five Little Peppers and How They Grew in the periodical Wide Awake.
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There were several sequels: The Five Little Peppers Midway, The Five Little Peppers Grown Up, and others.
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881)

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