Facts:   - death place: philadelphia , pennsylvania    - signature: lippard-signature . png    - caption: george lippard , ca. 1850    - influences: charles brockden brown    - death date: 9 february 1854      - birth date: 10 april 1822    - name: george lippard    - movement: romanticism    - image: george lippard-noframe . png    - birth place: west nantmeal township , pennsylvania    - occupation: novelist , journalist   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of george lippard .
george lippard -lrb- april 10 , 1822 -- february 9 , 1854 -rrb- was a 19th-century american novelist , journalist , playwright , social activist , and labor organizer .nearly forgotten today , he was one of the most widely read authors in antebellum america .a friend of edgar allan poe , lippard advocated a socialist political philosophy and sought justice for the working class in his writings .he founded a secret benevolent society , brotherhood of the union , investing in it all the trappings of a religion ; the society , a precursor to labor organizations , survived until 1994 .he authored two principal kinds of stories : gothic tales about the immorality , horror , vice , and debauchery of large cities , such as `` the monks of monk hall '' -lrb- 1844 -rrb- , reprinted as `` the quaker city '' -lrb- 1844 -rrb- ; and historical fiction of a type called romances , such as `` blanche of brandywine '' -lrb- 1846 -rrb- , `` legends of mexico '' -lrb- 1847 -rrb- , and the popular `` legends of the revolution '' -lrb- 1847 -rrb- .both kinds of stories , sensational and immensely popular when written , are mostly forgotten today .lippard died at the age of 31 in philadelphia , pennsylvania on february 9 , 1854 .