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H.M. Tomlinson
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'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a solid literary footing in the Bible, Shakespeare and Scott'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson Print: Book
William Shakespeare :
'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a solid literary footing in the Bible, Shakespeare and Scott'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson Print: Book
Walter Scott :
'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a solid literary footing in the Bible, Shakespeare and Scott'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson Print: Book
William Harrison Ainsworth : Rookwood
'"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excited by the printed page that they passed on the fun they had found, and thus... I was introduced to Mayne Reid, and again to Harrison Ainsworth, with "The Headless Horseman" and "Rookwood"".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.M. Tomlinson Print: Book
Thomas Mayne Reid : "The Headless Horseman"
'"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excited by the printed page that they passed on the fun they had found, and thus... I was introduced to Mayne Reid, and again to Harrison Ainsworth, with "The Headless Horseman" and "Rookwood"".'