H m tomlinson authors purpose
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There are some authors who are feted and acclaimed in their lifetime but whose work falls dramatically from favour soon afterwards. As their books were issued in large numbers, they often turn up in second-hand bookshops and the reader in search of rarer fare learns to skim over them. But occasionally, the thought occurs: is there something there? What did all those readers see all those years ago?
H M Tomlinson’s titles are, or at least have been, ubiquitous upon the shelves. His books can be picked up cheaply enough today. But he’s not often discussed, and I wonder whether many people read his books now. There may be a few quiet enthusiasts.
His prose is precise and observant, sometimes luminous. He requires a slow pace, a contemplative reading: it takes time to adjust to his unrolling thoughts. A literary acquaintance, Frank Swinnerton, noted, however, that it was incorrect to suppose his prose was ‘studied’, worked-over: anyone who knew Tomlinson and heard him in conversation would see that this was just how words flowed naturally from him.
There can be a sort of odd orotundity in some of his phrases, true, which will make his writing seem ‘old-fashioned’, though it can also seem graceful and strange. However, h
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Reading 1900-1950
As part of our adventure stories month, we set sail with a sea story…
Review by John S.
Plot summary:
The Hestia, a tramp steamer, is the main character in this novel. We meet her in the East Indies where she is regarded by the crew as an unlucky, even cursed vessel – ‘there’s a spell on her’ (p.18) – with intermittent steering problems. She eventually returns to England and is repaired, at least up to a point, at a shipyard in Devon. A professor and his daughter, who are friends of the owner, join the Hestia’s next voyage to the Mediterranean with the intention of taking a holiday. While in the Mediterranean new orders are received and the Hestia sets sail for America, encountering a terrible storm in the mid-Atlantic.
Review:
Well then, me hearties, this is a novel about life onboard a merchant ship, the business of a shipping company in the 1930s, and the elements. Tomlinson rose to fame as a travel writer before turning his hand to fiction. The human characters, apart from the captain, are secondary and rather one dimensional. Are the professor and his daughter introduced in Devon to increase the story’s appeal to landlubbers? They don’t perform any other purpose. I also struggled to tell one sailor from another because their
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H. M. Tomlinson
British writer gift journalist (1873–1958)
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Works
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- Old Junk (1918) stories
- London River (1921) revised 1951