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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Music Clips added to Love on the Dole: the Musical (1970)
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)
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 – Underneath the Lamp-post: Arthur Wragg’s Incomplete Sketch for a New Walter Greenwood Dust-wrapper (1930? 1940s?)
In mid-February 2025 a Cornish auction house put on a sale of works from the studio of Wragg and Greenwood's friend and fellow artist Frederick Roberts Johnson. These included quite a large number of items which had come in turn by some means from Arthur Wragg's Polperro studio. I was able to buy through an… Continue reading New Article – Underneath the Lamp-post: Arthur Wragg’s Incomplete Sketch for a New Walter Greenwood Dust-wrapper (1930? 1940s?)
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 