Walter Greenwood

Love on the Dole

Social realist novel depicting working-class life and unemployment in Depression-era Lancashire

About the author

Walter Greenwood
Walter Greenwood

Greenwood was a self-educated Salford writer whose Love on the Dole brought the reality of Depression unemployment to a mass readership. The novel was adapted for stage and screen and became a landmark of working-class fiction.

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