ABSTRACT
Lippard (1822–54) was a prolific Philadelphia journalist and novelist with strong populist sympathies. He presumably named his weekly paper after his sensational novel of life in Philadelphia — The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall (1844). Lippard saw himself as an outsider and felt affinity with Poe, whom he assisted on his last ‘spree’ in Philadelphia — see Letters,2, 455–6. For further comment on the Poe —Lippard relationship, see Emilio De Grazia, ‘Poe's Devoted Democrat, George Lippard’, Poe Studies,6 (June 1973), 6–8; Burton R. Pollin, ‘More on Lippard and Poe’, Poe Studies,7 (June 1974), 22–3.
