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- 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.
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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. It is set in Hanky Park, an industrial slum in Salford, where Greenwood was born and brought up.
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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...
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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Nov 1, 2018 · Love on the Dole (1933) is the best-remembered novel about the unemployed during the Depression, and has never been out of print. Its working-class author, Walter Greenwood, went overnight from being unemployed in Salford to being a best-selling writer.
Greenwood co-wrote a new script for British National Studios and the 1941 Love on the Dole was sympathetically directed by John Baxter, with a well-regarded score by Richard Adinsell (composer of The Warsaw Concerto for the film Dangerous Moonlight, also released in 1941).
Aug 30, 2018 · In January 1933 he received an acceptance letter from Jonathan Cape and the novel came out later that year to almost universally good reviews – his story about the entrapped misery of being long-term unemployed was found persuasive by newspapers of Conservative, Liberal and Labour convictions.
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.
