Five Little Peppers Paul Merchant Sister Invention combines irony and

Sister Invention combines irony and wit

based on a conference organised by The Friends of Mr Biswas

Mills College

co-editor Emma Wright notes how

Five Little Peppers Paul Merchant Sister Invention combines irony andWorking hard to survive in a harsh world, the Peppers still find joy and love in their little brown house until a chance encounter with a wealthy family changes their fortunes forever. When it was first published in 1881, Margaret Sidneys Five Little Peppers was an immediate bestseller. Its account of the five Pepper siblings adventures in the American Gilded Age attracted an army of young readers who clamoured for sequels well into the twentieth