Walter Greenwood Web-site Development Plan

I began the Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole site in 2017, a year before my Greenwood book of some 110,000 words came out in 2018. The web-site now hosts articles totalling just over 848,000 words together with some 335 individual images, many of items in my Greenwood collection, and a number of sound-files and video-clips. The images include the home page image of the site which is the lower half of the first edition dust-wrapper of Greenwood’s second novel, His Worship the Mayor, 1934, which visually makes the point that his work after 1933 was often sold with reference to Love on the Dole.  That was, of course, an important novel and then play, but he also wrote other works of interest and significance (image of the cover scanned from a copy in the Author’s collection).

I will be adding fairly regularly a number of new articles about Greenwood. Already completed are the one-hundred articles listed below in order of publication. The eighty-five articles with an asterisk are new and original research completed since my book came out in April 2018; un-asterisked articles are based on research in my book, though all material is revised and updated. The website draws on research in the book, but by no means simply duplicates material nor the overall argument of the book – the website is rather an expansion and addition to the topics covered in the book, and moves beyond its central focus on Love on the Dole to cover all of Greenwood’s life and works, as well as incorporating extensive visual and some sound material which it was not possible to include in the original hard-copy format. In short, the book and the website might both usefully be read by serious Greenwood scholars, readers, and fans . . .

Articles published in order of publication:

‘Greenwood’s Other Books’  (my introductions to ten of his novels, his two non-fiction works, and his memoir – the fullest published account of his complete literary oeuvre)

‘Greenwood’s Dust-Wrappers and Covers 1933 to the present’ *

‘Walter Greenwood: a Biographical Time-line’ *

‘Resources for Learning about Walter Greenwood.’

‘Walter Greenwood’s Short Stories.’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and Arthur Wragg’s The Cleft Stick  – an Introduction’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and Film’

‘The Film of Love on the Dole (1941)’

‘Why is Walter Greenwood important?’

‘Walter Greenwood’s Creative Partnerships.’ *

‘Love on the Dole in Sheffield: a Unique Story.’ *

‘Love on the Dole – a Concise Commercial Adaptation (1939)?’ *

‘Love on the Dole and the Clergy’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and the Spy: an Incredible Story’ *

‘Walter Greenwood’s Finances and Love on the Dole’ *

‘Walter Greenwood’s Tie’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and the Delta Bombers’ *

‘A Second Walter Greenwood? Edward A. Hibbitt, Salford Novelist’ *

‘Love on the Dole – a Home-made Dust-wrapper’ *

‘Walter Greenwood: a Biography’

‘Cape and Penguin Advertise Greenwood’ *

‘Three New Autobiographical Pieces by Walter Greenwood’ *

‘Walter Greenwood on Radio and TV’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and Dora Bryan’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and Gracie Fields’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and Robert Donat’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and Robert Newton’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and Thora Hird’ *

‘The Autodidact’s Introduction to Love on the Dole: the Nelson Anthology of Modern Drama (1936)’ *

‘Love on the Dole: ‘Programmes Jealously Preserved’, 1935-2010′ *

‘Love on the Dole: an Australian Glass-slide Cinema Advert, circa 1942’ *

‘Love on the Dole: the Cigarette Card’ *

‘Fame: Love on the Dole (the Play, 1934, co-written with Ronald Gow)’

‘Love on the Dole in a time of Full Employment: Granada/ATV’s Television Adaptation (1967)’. *

‘Love on the Dole: a Second Cigarette Card (1935)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood and his Father’s Trade (Hairdresser)’ *

‘Love on the Dole: the Actors (1934-1937)’ *

‘Mr and Mrs Buslingthorpe Go and See Love on the Dole (Grand Theatre, Leeds, May 1934)’ *

‘George Bernard Shaw, Wendy Hiller and Walter Greenwood’ *

‘Walter Greenwood’s Christmas Present to Arthur Wragg’ *

‘The Pictures … Are Even More Stark Than the Prose’ (Sheffield Telegraph 2/12/1937):  Word and Image in Walter Greenwood and Arthur Wragg’s The Cleft Stick (1937) in Word & Image, Volume 36, 2020, Issue 4, pp.321-342. * Available via open access:  Word and Image in Walter Greenwood and Arthur Wragg’s The Cleft Stick (1937)

‘Who went to see the Play in the Thirties? The Reception of Love on the Dole Revisited’ *

‘I Have a Ticket for Love on the Dole at the Garrick! (January 1935)’ *

‘The National Portrait Gallery Portrait of Wendy Hiller as Sally Hardcastle (1935) by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale’ *

‘Deborah Kerr, Stardom, and Love on the Dole‘ *

‘Walter Greenwood and George Formby’ *

‘A Forgotten Love on the Dole Rehearsal Photograph by James  ‘Jimmy’ Jarché (December 1940)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood’s Plays 1934-1971’ *

‘Screenwriter Barbara K. Emary Looks Back on the Making of the 1941 Love on the Dole (1988)’ *

‘Eleanor Roosevelt Goes to See Love on the Dole (Shubert Theatre, New York, April 1936)’ *

‘Picture Post Foretells a Star: Deborah Kerr (December 1940)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood: the Kersal Flats.Co.Uk Interview (1973)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood: ‘Those Turbulent Years’ Interview (John Tusa, BBC Radio 4, 1971)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood: ‘Dole Cue’ Interview (Catherine Stott, the Guardian, 1971)’ *

‘ “Any Bread, Cake or Pie?”: Walter Greenwood’s Hunger Story (1937)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood: ‘Old Habits Die Hard’ Interview (George Rosie, the Radio Times, 1971)’ *

‘The (Only) Portrait of Walter Greenwood, by Margaret Rosemary Anyon Cook (1950?)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood Among the Artists: Polperro (1936-1965)’*

‘ “Walter Greenwood Come Home” (interview with Geoffrey Moorhouse, the Guardian, 1967)*

‘Four Publicity Photos and the US Release of Love on the Dole (Four Continents Films Inc., 12 October 1945)*

‘A Pen and Ink Sketch of Walter Greenwood by Louis Ollier (1934?)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood’s Press-Cuttings Books (1933- 1974) *

‘Walter Greenwood Court (15 Storeys, 1964-2001)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood: “Tragedy Behind the Play” Interview (Hannen Swaffer, Daily Herald, 1935)’ *

‘Love on the Dole at the People’s Palace (Mile End Rd, London E.1, 1938)’ *

‘Walter Greenwood: a Brief Introduction to his Life and Works’ (a PowerPoint slide-show)

‘The Complete Works of Walter Greenwood – a Gallery’

‘Walter Greenwood and the Beveridge Report (1941-1945)’*

‘What Sally Did Next: Greenwood’s Sequel to Love on the Dole (‘Prodigal’s Return’, John Bull, January 1938)*

‘Paul Graney’s Memories of Lost Early Drafts of the Play of Love on the Dole (Tapes 1960s? / One Bloke, 2011) *

‘Love on the Dole in Newcastle: Another Unique Story, or Anyway, Play-script (April 1935)*

‘Walter Greenwood’s Two Manchester Hospital Stories (1935 and 1945)*

‘Walter Greenwood: Vegetarian Messenger (1934-35) *

‘Three Cheers for the First Night, February 26 1934: Audrey Cameron’s Celebration Copy of Love on the Dole’ *

‘Walter Greenwood Enjoys his Early Successes: a Letter (6 March 1934)*

‘The Novel Putnam Published Instead of Love on the Dole: Hans Fallada’s Little Man What Now (1933)‘.*

‘Two/Three Songs, Two Hymns and a March in the Play of Love on a Dole; Act I and Act III, Scene 2 (1934/1935), with a Coda on a Song in the Film, 1941*

‘Walter Greenwood’s First Press Interview: ‘Idle Days Turned to Money’, Manchester Evening News, 1933*

‘Doleful Humour: Laughing Off Unemployment Between the Wars?’ *

‘William Alwyn’s ‘The Cure for Love Waltz’ in Walter Greenwood & Robert Donat’s Film The Cure for Love (1949) *

‘Love on the Dole and a Case of Theatrical Fraud – or Was it?: Feltham Police Court and the Central Criminal Court (November 1935 – February 1936)*

‘One of Our Portraits is Missing: Drusilla Wills as Mrs Jike by James Ardern Grant (1938) *

‘Walter Greenwood’s Workhouse Memories (1937-1967)*’

‘Walter Greenwood’s People’s War Manifesto (Sunday Mirror, August 1941)*

‘The Value of Love on the Dole – the Short View and the Long View’ *

‘The Film Music of Love on the Dole by Richard Addinsell, probably orchestrated by Roy Douglas (1941)*

‘What Happens in Love on the Dole? – Plot Summaries and Other Useful Devices’

‘Love on the Dole: the Musical’ *

‘ “Servitude at the Desk”: Walter Greenwood and Clerical Work’ *

‘Five Producers, Four Directors and Two Stars in Search of a Picture: the Tantalising Project of Love on the Dole as Film (1935-1941) *

‘Sam Grundy’s Car / Sally Hardcastle’s Resistance *1933;1941)*

‘Love on the Dole: the Cartoons (February 1035)*

‘ “Call the Handywoman”: Birth and Death in Hanky Park 1933-1937*

‘Underneath the Lamp-post: Arthur Wragg’s Incomplete Sketch for a New Walter Greenwood Dust-wrapper (1930? 1940s?)’*

‘A Unique (?) Typescript Acting Copy of Walter Greenwood’s The Practised Hand, with Rehearsal Notes, and Two Character Sketches by Arthur Wragg (1935) *

‘Arthur Wragg’s Original Drawing for The Cleft Stick Dust-wrapper and the Original Drawing for his Alternative Design (1936/7) *

Arthur Wragg Draws Walter as a Schoolboy in ‘The Old School – an Autobiographical Fragment’ (The Cleft Stick, 1937) *

Don’t Forget to Look underneath the Dust-wrapper! A Hidden Feature in the Czech Edition of Love on the Dole (1937) *

Down and Out with Orwell and Greenwood (1933, 1939). *

The aim is to produce a helpful, engaging, attractive and full range of resources for those interested in Greenwood’s life and work and in the way he represented the working-people of Salford and other parts of Britain. I think there will eventually be around one-hundred-and-twenty articles, since there are still a number of unresearched aspects of Walter’s life, work, contemporaries, reception and reputation to work on. The book and website together will be the fullest published account of his life, career and works, and together constitute a large body of original research. I hope the web-site will be preserved in its finished form long-term by one or other relevant university libraries, archives or research depositories to be a resource for further work on Greenwood, his context and contemporaries.

Do follow the site so you can see new material as soon as it is added (click on the blue ‘Follow’ button at the left-hand bottom corner of this or any other page). 

– best wishes, Chris Hopkins (Emeritus Professor of English, Sheffield Hallam University).