Victorian Smackdown? Five Little Peppers v. Four Little Women: Part 1

September 23, 2015 · by Kate Gilbert | in The Story of Books | tagged Famous Writers of Concord Massachusetts, Hard Times for Louisa May Alcott's Family, Harriett Lothrop aka Margaret Sidney, Harriett Lothrop and The Five Little Peppers, Harriett Lothrop and the Hawthorne Family, Harriett Lothrop Social Climber, Harriett Lothrop vs. Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Sidney and Her Dream of a "Little Brown House", Orchard House and the Alcotts, The Alcott Family and Little Women, The Alcott Family of Concord, The Hawthorne Family of Concord, The Wayside aka Hillside, The Wayside and its Famous Residents | 15 Comments

On the road from Lexington to Concord, Massachusetts, midway between the welter of orange-striped traffic barrels on the outskirts and the boutiques and pricey restaurants downtown, two old wood-framed houses sit side by side. One of these, Orchard House, is famous as the place where Louisa May Alcott wrote some of her best-known books. The […]