A query pursued.
Some months I posted a query as to what a
journalist might have meant when he referred to himself as 'a
radical and something more?' The term does seem to
have been current in the Victorian era. I am reading
'Thomas Frost's 'Forty Years of Recollections ( Sampson and
Low 1880) and Thomas Frost describes himself as 'a chartist
and something more'
The first three chapters of a later autobiography 'Reminiscences of a Country Journalist' recall his childhood in Croydon and he writes about the whole of South London at a time when most of the area was still country. Is this of interest to the East Dulwich Writing Group? I have made a PDF file of these chapters, but the books are downloadable.
Thomas Frost had been a Victorian journalist much involved in the penny-press and his book is a source document for the Chartist movement. He had also been a communist in his youth, and an Owenite.
The journalist I am researching, wrote an 'apologia' for Robespierre,' and one can only assume that the journalist had Republican sympathies and might even had Jacobin tendencies. He might well have ascribed to Thomas Paine and also, to the foundations of the French Revolution.
I was rather distracted by recent,bibliographical entry which describes him and his two brothers as 'racist' I have enquired over this. Is it possible for someone with these set of beliefs to have been a racist? In a story, he states, quite firmly that he is not. The story is set in Texas - about the 1830's, at a time when slavery had not been abolished.
The person who wrote the bibliographical entry was wrong in one respect - there were five brothers who were journalists, not three.
I'm off to work now as I am using up my leave and have odd hours.
The first three chapters of a later autobiography 'Reminiscences of a Country Journalist' recall his childhood in Croydon and he writes about the whole of South London at a time when most of the area was still country. Is this of interest to the East Dulwich Writing Group? I have made a PDF file of these chapters, but the books are downloadable.
Thomas Frost had been a Victorian journalist much involved in the penny-press and his book is a source document for the Chartist movement. He had also been a communist in his youth, and an Owenite.
The journalist I am researching, wrote an 'apologia' for Robespierre,' and one can only assume that the journalist had Republican sympathies and might even had Jacobin tendencies. He might well have ascribed to Thomas Paine and also, to the foundations of the French Revolution.
I was rather distracted by recent,bibliographical entry which describes him and his two brothers as 'racist' I have enquired over this. Is it possible for someone with these set of beliefs to have been a racist? In a story, he states, quite firmly that he is not. The story is set in Texas - about the 1830's, at a time when slavery had not been abolished.
The person who wrote the bibliographical entry was wrong in one respect - there were five brothers who were journalists, not three.
I'm off to work now as I am using up my leave and have odd hours.
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