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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.
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.
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.
- Ronald Gow, Walter Greenwood
- 1933
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...
Here are significant or revealing (or in a few cases just quirky) events in Greenwood's life and work in the form of a timeline. The information included mainly bears on his literary and political biography, though perhaps some of the 'quirky' inclusions contribute more to a holistic account of his life.
