because of the same time we have longfellow, we have george lippard. a picture of george lippard. he wrote the best-selling novel in the united states up until the time of "uncle tom's cabin." "uncle tom's cabin" will take over as the best-selling novel. cabin,"l "uncle tom's the best-selling novel is "the also calledk hall", "quaker city." sarah hale says in godey's ladies' book that george lippard is the most popular novelist of this time -- i will not be printing any of his novels. george lippard is a pennsylvanian. he lived much of his life in philadelphia. he was a working-class journalist. he spent a lot of time with the journeymen in the city of philadelphia. we talked a lot about the journeymen. as we have talked about -- this is the time when the journeymen's world is changing. they are becoming more and more wage laborers rather than skilled men who are having, as a goal, achieving independence and mastering for themselves. there's a lot of crime and poverty emerging in cities like new york and philadelphia. so george lippard lives in a working-class, journeymen world, a