As the eldest, Tomlinson was expected to go to work to help his mother and the younger children. One is only a bit surprised that he did not go to sea. He would remain in this occupation for nearly twenty years, even after his marriage in 1898 to Florence Hammond.
Although Tomlinson's interest in writing developed early (he did, in fact, contribute several signed pieces to newspapers while he was still at the shipping firm), it was not until 1904 that his career as a journalist began in earnest on The Morning Leader . There he was able to develop his skill as an essayist, especially on several assignments involving excursions aboard ship, in 1904 on the Windover, a steam trawler, and in 1906 and 1909, respectively, on the Celestine bound for Algiers and the Capella on a trip up the Amazon. The latter trip resulted in his first book, The Sea and the Jungle (1912). And even though Tomlinson did not begin to experiment with the novel until after the war, he wrote several travel pieces and literary articles for little magazines between 1909 and 1927, including the English Review, the Literary Digest, the New Republic,and the Nation and Athenaeum .
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