LIPPARD, George, author, born near Yellow Springs, Pennsylvania, 10 April, 1822; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 February, 1854. He began to study law at fifteen years of age, but was never admitted to the bar. His sensational novels evince vigor and imagination, but have few other recommendations. He founded the Brotherhood of the Union, a secret charitable and benevolent institution, and wrote for it a ritual. Previous to the civil war this order was one of the strongest in the country. Lippard is described as a brilliant but erratic genius. He was passionately fond of country life, and, living with an aunt near Germantown, roamed along the banks of the romantic Wissahickon and wrote much about it. With a strange fancy, he was married at sunrise on the banks of this stream. He was regarded as an eloquent speaker. His romances include "The Ladye Annabel" (Philadelphia, 1842); "The Belle of Prarie Eden" (1844); "Legends of Mexico" (1847); "Legends of the Revolution" (1847); "Blanche of Brandywine"; "The Nazarene"; "New York--its Upper Ten, and Lower Million"; "The Quaker City"; "Paul Ardenheim, or the Monk of Wissahickon"; "Herbert Tracy"; "Adonai"; and "Memoirs of a Preacher." See his life, with selected writings (Philadelphia, 1855). In addition to the novels he published "Washington and his Generals" and edited the "White Banner Quarterly." Source: Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM

Primary Works

New York: its upper ten and lower million. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. (1853). PS2246 L8 N4

The monks of Monk Hall. Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler. NY: Odyssey P, 1970. PS2246 .L8 Q3

 

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Ashwill, Gary. "The Mysteries of Capitalism in George Lippard's City Novels." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 40.4 (4th Quar 1994): 293-317.

Callaghan, Gavin. "George Lippard: Revolutionary Horror Writer." Studies in Weird Fiction 23 (Sumr 1998): 1-15.

Curtis, Julia. "Philadelphia in an Uproar: The Monks of Monk Hall, 1844." Theatre History Studies 5 (1985): 41-47.

DeGrazia, Emili. "Poe's Devoted Democrat, George Lippard." Poe Studies 6.1 (1973): 6-8.

- - -. "Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and the 'Spermaceti and Walnut-Coffin Papers'." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 66 (1972): 58-60.

Ehrlich, Heywar. "The 'Mysteries' of Philadelphia: Lippard's Quaker City and 'Urban' Gothic." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 66 (1972): 50-65.

Fiedler, Lesli. (The Quaker City, or) The Monks of Monk Hall. By George Lippard. With Introd. NY: Odyssey, 1970.

- - -. "The Male Novel." Partisan Review 37 (1970): 74-89.

Pollin, Burton R. "More on Lippard and Poe." Poe Studies 7.1 (1974): 22-23.

Reynolds, David S. George Lippard. Boston: Twayne Publishers, c1982. PS2246 .L8 Z86

- - -. ed. George Lippard, Prophet of Protest: Writings of an American Radical, 1822-1854. NY: Peter Lang, 1986.

Ridgely, J. V. "George Lippard's The Quaker City: The World of the American Porno-Gothic." Studies in the Literary Imagination 7.1 (1974): 77-94.

Seecamp, Carsten E. "The Chapter of Perfection: A Neglected Influence on George Lippard." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 94 (1970): 192-212.

Streeby, Shelley. "Opening Up the Story Paper: George Lippard and the Construction of Class." Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 24.1 (Sprg 1997): 177-203.

- - -. "Haunted Houses: George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Middle-Class America." Criticism 38.3 (Sumr 1996): 443-72.

- - -. "Republican Gothic: George Lippard, Urban Sensationalism, and the Transformation of the Literary Public Sphere in the United States, 1830-1860." DAI 55.9 (Mar 1995): 2876A.

- - -. American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture. Berkeley: UC Press, 2002.

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