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Lippard (1822-54) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist and labour organiser. The success of his 1845 novel The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall, exposing city life in antebellum Philadelphia, which sold 60,000 copies in its first year, made him one of America's highest paid writers of the 1840s, earning $3,000 to $4,000 a year. In 1850 he founded the Brotherhood of the Union, a secret benevolent society aiming to eliminate poverty and crime by removing the social ills that caused them. By 1917 the organisation had achieved a membership of 30,00 but gradually declined thereafter and ceased to exist in 1994. Lippard suffered from tuberculosis in his last years and, confined to the house, spent his final months writing a newspaper story protesting against the Fugitive Slave Law. He is remembered today for using popular literature as a vehicle for social reform. This novel was first published in 1854, the year of his untimely death some months before his 32nd birthday.