Walter Greenwood Collection c1860s-2004

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Walter Greenwood Collection c1860s-2004

52 linear feet

eng,

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Greenwood, Walter, 1903-

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Walter Greenwood was born in Salford on 17th December 1903, and was educated at the local council school. After leaving school at the age of thirteen he worked in a succession of poorly paid jobs, as a pawnbroker's assistant, clerk, stable lad, maker of packing-cases, and was sometimes unemployed. Greenwood started to write fiction in his late twenties. His first novel, Love on the Dole, was published in 1933, and was an immediate success. Over the next forty years Green...