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Waiting for Daylight

(Henry Major Tomlinson was a British writer and journalist...)

Norman Douglas,

Below London bridge,

(A very good copy with foxing to the edges, and a sunned a...)

Morning light, the islanders in the days of oak and hemp

Norman Douglas,

(An introduction to the life and work of the author of the...)

Mars His Idiot

(novel)

Illusion 1915 by H M Tomlinson (2010-09-10)

Gallions Reach - A Romance

Morning light,: The islanders in the days of oak and hemp

Under the red ensign

Gallions Reach: a Romanace

South to Cadiz,

(1934 Harper and Bros. Hardcover.)

Trumpet Shall Sound

Henry Major Tomlinson

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Background

He was born and died in London.

Career

He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea. Tomlinson was brought up in Poplar, London. He worked as a shipping clerk, and then as a reporter for the Morning Leader newspaper.

He travelled up the Amazon River for lieutenant

In World War I he was an official correspondent for the British Army, in France. In 1917 he returned to work with H. West. Massingham on The Nation, which opposed the war.

He left the paper in 1923, when Massingham resigned because of a change of owner and political line. Tomlinson was much admired in the 1920s, though not by everyone.

Frederic P. Mayer wrote in the Virginia Quarterly Review:

Because his book is labeled fiction, H. M. Tomlinson, with the publication of his first novel, "Gallions Reach," is gaining fame.

Before, Tomlinson, essayist and traveler, enjoyed but a limited distinction. Recently, however, and mainly through "Gallions Reach," there has grown a Tomlinson vogue. He has been praised as "a second Conrad." The truth is, Tomlinson does not derive from nor resemble Conrad.