It is a curious thing but the characters in Love on the Dole do not seem to buy much food - indeed there is pretty light reference to shops in the novel, yet in Greenwood's short story collection, The Cleft Stick, largely written before the novel but published after it, there are some major stories… Continue reading New Article – Grocers and Chippies: Walter Greenwood’s Small Shopkeepers (1933-1967)
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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 