Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood and Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Click on a title or topic below:

• Types of hardship in Love on the Dole
• Worksheet on parts one and two of Love on the Dole
• Worksheet on part three of Love on the Dole
• Notes on the character of Larry in Love on the Dole
• Hard Times: Romantic Tragedy or Proletariat Propaganda?
• Chesterton's essay, including his answer to the 'sullen socialism' gibe of Lord Macaulay
• The Politics of Hope in Love on the Dole
• An essay on characterisation in Hard Times
• Signet edition Afterword (ie, critical introduction)
• Hard Times section of the Charles Dickens page - extremely helpful and interesting
• Sparknotes on Hard Times