[Stone]. American author, who writes under the pseudonym “Margaret Sidney”; born in New Haven, CT, on the 22nd of June 1844. Educated near home, she traveled widely through the United States, and early entered upon a literary life, though she published nothing before 1877, when her short stories and poems began to appear in the periodicals. In 1881 she married Mr. Daniel Lothrop, a well-known Boston publisher, and lived in Hawthorne’s old Concord home. She has written Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1882); The Pettibone Name (1883); Ballad of the Lost Hare (1884); The Golden West (1885); Hester and Other New England Stories (1886); Two Modern Little Princes (1887); Dilly and the Captain (1888); Old Concord (1888); Kensington Junior (1888); An Adirondack Cabin (1890); and Whittier with the Children (1893).
