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While unemployed, during 1932, Greenwood wrote his first novel, Love on the Dole, about the destructive social effects of poverty in his home town. After several rejections, it was published during 1933.
While the book as a whole couldn't be called feminist, the ending that Greenwood writes for Sally Hardcastle is still a pleasant surprise and one that seems to go straight against morality norms of the time.
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Aug 30, 2018 · To celebrate the release of Walter Greenwood’s 'Love on the Dole', author Chris Hopkins discusses the evolution of Love on the Dole and unveils the unpublished works of Walter Greenwood. Can you tell us a bit about Walter Greenwood and the context in which Love on the Dole was written?
Love on the Dole (1933), the iconic novel about 1930s British working-class life, has a significant place in British cultural history. Its author, Walter Greenwo...
Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film. The novel. Walter Greenwood 's novel (1933) was written during the early 1930s as a response to the crisis of unemployment, which was being felt locally, nationally, and internationally.
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The Introduction gives a concise overview of the cultural importance of Greenwood’s text and its social, historical, and political context. Chapter 1 gives a detailed critical analysis of the novel of Love on the Dole, with a focus on the construction of the reader within specific historical contexts.
Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter has three sections. The first covers Greenwood’s life and writing from his birth in 1903 up until Jonathan Cape’s acceptance of his novel Love on the Dole in 1933 and his instant celebrity.
