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Henry Major Tomlinson

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Henry Major Tomlinson 1873–1958, English novelist. A dock worker, then a journalist and war correspondent, he was (1917–23) literary editor of the Nation and Athenaeum. Probably his best-known novel is the sea story Gallions Reach (1927). Others include Pipe All Hands (1937) and Morning Light (1946). All Our Yesterdays (1930) is a semifictional history of World War I. Among his travelogues are The Sea and the Jungle (1912), South to Cadiz (1934), and Below London Bridge (1935).

Bibliography: See his autobiographical sketches, A Mingled Yarn (1953).

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Tomlinson, H. M.

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Tomlinson, H. M., ( Henry Major Tomlinson) (1873–1958), novelist and journalist, the son of a foreman at the West India Dock; his early love of ships and the sea is reflected in his life and works, e.g. The Sea and the Jungle (1912, an account of a voyage to Brazil and up the Amazon), London River (1921, essays and reflections), and his first novel, Gallions Reach (1927).

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