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- He wrote to a then popular and socialist novelist (Ethel Mannin) and she advised him to write a novel if he wanted to get published. Greenwood combined material from a number of his rejected short stories and added a good deal of new material and a unifying plot in order to create his breakthrough novel – Love on the Dole.
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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.
Walter Greenwood is remembered chiefly as the author of the novel, Love on the Dole (1933), and then a play-adaptation (1935), both of which had a wide impact on public perceptions of the intolerable living conditions of the unemployed in the nineteen-thirties.
Aug 30, 2018 · He wrote to a then popular and socialist novelist (Ethel Mannin) and she advised him to write a novel if he wanted to get published. Greenwood combined material from a number of his rejected short stories and added a good deal of new material and a unifying plot in order to create his breakthrough novel – Love on the Dole.
Sep 16, 2024 · Greenwood started to write fiction in his late twenties. His first novel, Love on the Dole, was published in 1933, and was an immediate success. Over the next forty years Greenwood...
Greenwood did refer clearly to her help in the 1937 ‘Author’s Preface’ to The Cleft Stick: ‘Miss Ethel Mannin, a complete stranger to me at that time, was good enough to read the collection and to advise me to write a novel using some of the characters.
Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), was a novelist and playwright born in Salford in 1903 and began writing fiction in his late 20s. Greenwood's first and best-known work, Love on the Dole, published in 1933, was a story about urban poverty based on the area ‘Hanky Park’ where Walter grew up.
This site will explore the life, literary career and historical and social context of the working-class writer, Walter Greenwood (1903-1974). He is best remembered for his 1933 unemployment novel, Love on the Dole (and the subsequent play version, 1935, and later film version, 1941).….
