With the kind help and permission of Stewart Nicholls, the director of the 1995 Woking revival, I've now been able to add further material to this article, including the original Nottingham Playhouse Programme and music clips featuring six key songs from the 1995 production CD. Readers might therefore like to revisit the piece which can… Continue reading Music Clips added to Love on the Dole: the Musical (1970)
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New Article: Down and Out with Orwell and Greenwood (1933; 1939)
This is an article comparing Orwell's account of being Down and Out in Paris and London in his first published book with Greenwood's shorter report on being down and out in London in his 1939 documentary book, How the Other Man Lives. I thought it would be a short article when I started, but it… Continue reading New Article: Down and Out with Orwell and Greenwood (1933; 1939)
A Brief Addendum: the Cover image I missed in the Czech edition of Love on the Dole (1937)
In 2018 in my (rather long) article about all known dust-wrappers and cover designs for all the editions of all Walter Greenwood's published works I gave an account of the Czech translation's striking dust-wrapper by the very well-known Czech artist known as Toyen (1902-1980). However, I missed something: if you removed the dust-wrapper (which I… Continue reading A Brief Addendum: the Cover image I missed in the Czech edition of Love on the Dole (1937)
New Article: Arthur Wragg Draws Walter as a Schoolboy in ‘The Old School – an Autobiographical Fragment’ (The Cleft Stick, 1937) *
Arthur Wragg and Walter Greenwood probably first met when they were both 32 years old in 1935. They then spent a year working on their collaborative book The Cleft Stick, or 'its the same the whole world over', which was published in 1937. This is made up of fourteen short stories by Greenwood, mainly written… Continue reading New Article: Arthur Wragg Draws Walter as a Schoolboy in ‘The Old School – an Autobiographical Fragment’ (The Cleft Stick, 1937) *
New Article: Arthur’s Wragg’s Original Dust-wrapper Drawing for The Cleft Stick, and his Original Drawing of an Alternative Design (1936/7)
These two rare original dust-wrapper drawings by Arthur Wragg for his collaboration with Walter Greenwood on The Cleft Stick recently came to light through a Cornish auction house's sale of items in two artists' studios. I think both versions of Wragg's drawing show how carefully he thought about his dust-wrapper work when he was fully… Continue reading New Article: Arthur’s Wragg’s Original Dust-wrapper Drawing for The Cleft Stick, and his Original Drawing of an Alternative Design (1936/7)
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 