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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.
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 produced...
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.
While unemployed, he wrote his first novel, Love on the Dole, in 1932. It was about the destructive social effects of poverty in his home town. After several rejections, it was published in 1933. It was a critical and commercial success, and a huge influence on the British public's view of unemployment.
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The Novel Putnam Published Instead of Love on the Dole: Hans Fallada’s Little Man, What Now? (Kleiner Mann Was Nun? 1933) * Fame: Love on the Dole (the Play, 1934, co-written with Ronald Gow) In the Cinema at Last: Love on the Dole (the Film, 1941) An Introduction to Walter Greenwood and Arthur Wragg’s The Cleft Stick (1937)
