George W.M. Reynolds (1814-79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short stories and his "e;penny blood"e; The Mysteries of London, serialised in weekly numbers between 1844 and 1848, sold over a million copies. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Reynolds's Mysteries, and its follow-up The Mysteries of the Court of London (1849-56), contained tales of crime, vice, and highly sexualised scenes. For this reason Charles Dickens remarked that Reynolds's name was one "e;with which no lady's, and no gentleman's, should be associated."e; Yet Reynolds was much more than just a novelist; he was lauded by the working classes as their champion and campaigned for universal suffrage. To further the working classes' cause, he established two newspapers: Reynolds's Political Instructor and Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper. The latter newspaper, as Karl Marx recognized, became the principal organ of radical and labour politics. This book provides a biography of Reynolds and reproduces his editorials from Reynolds's Political Instructor as well as excerpts from his fiction.