Background
Thomas Frost was born in Croydon in Surrey (now part of Greater London) on 16 December 1821, the son of a tailor who had read William Cobbett"s Political Register and took part in the agitation to secure the Reform Acting 1832.
Thomas Frost was born in Croydon in Surrey (now part of Greater London) on 16 December 1821, the son of a tailor who had read William Cobbett"s Political Register and took part in the agitation to secure the Reform Acting 1832.
In 1846 he took over the publication of John Goodwyn Barmby"s Communist Chronicle, a monthly paper which had been discontinued for financial reasons. Frost revived the Chronicle as a weekly publication and reduced the price from 3d. to 1d. with Barmby retaining editorial control. Differences between Barmby and Frost on their aims caused publication to cease.
Frost then started a short-lived Communist Journal.
From 1847 to 1848 he was associated with the Fraternal Democrats. From 1859 Frost was a leader writer for the Liverpool Albion weekly newspaper, on foreign politics and social questions.
Frost"s terms of employment were now changed so that he was only paid for articles that were published. He was contracted to provide two articles per week, but many were not published, being politically incompatible.
His income falling by one-third he left the Albion.
Frost subsequently settled in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and worked as a reporter for the Barnsley Times and the Barnsley Chronicle. He wrote a number of books, mostly by his own admission "potboilers". He estimated his annual income from journalism and other literary undertakings to have been less than £200 per year.
He died in 1908.
Frost claimed it was not until he read the poetry of Mary Shelley that he learned of "the connexion between the influence of circumstances in the formation of character and the new organization which Owen desired to give society". Frost became an active Chartist and Owenite and although he believed in revolution he stopped short of taking part in a revolutionary conspiracy in order to avoid arrest. He above all desired independence and wrote that "the assumption by Mr. Gladstone of the leadership of the Liberal party in the House of Commons seemed to promise the inauguration of a new era".
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