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Ronald Gow (1 November 1897 – 27 April 1993) was an English dramatist, best known for ''
Love on the Dole ''Love on the Dole'' is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film. The novel Walter Greenwood's novel (1933) was written during the early 1930s as a respons ...
'' (1934). Born in
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, Stockport, Cheshire, the son of a bank manager, Gow attended Altrincham County High School. After training as a chemist, he returned to his old school as a teacher. In the late 1920s he made several educational
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with his pupils: ''The People of the Axe'' (1926) and ''The People of the Lake'' (1928) recreated life in ancient Britain, the latter produced 'with the approval of' Sir William Boyd Dawkins; ''The Man Who Changed His Mind'' (1928) was a Boy Scout adventure with a cameo from
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; ''The Glittering Sword'' (1929) was a medieval parable about disarmament. Writing occupied his spare time during his years as a schoolmaster, and he wrote several plays for the
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. At the age of 35 he had his first professional production, in London and New York, with ''Gallows Glorious'' (1933), a play about the American slavery abolitionist John Brown. In 1934 he wrote ''
Love on the Dole ''Love on the Dole'' is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film. The novel Walter Greenwood's novel (1933) was written during the early 1930s as a respons ...
'', based on Walter Greenwood's novel about
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in
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during the Great Depression. The play was a huge success.
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played the lead, and also made her first film appearance in the Gow-scripted '' Lancashire Luck''. In 1937 Hiller and Gow married. They later moved to Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where they raised two children, Ann (1939–2006) and Anthony (b. 1942). He lived with Hiller at their home, "Spindles", until his death in 1993. He continued writing plays into his eighties, providing material for his wife in adaptations of '' Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' (1946), which was a great success while ''
Ann Veronica ''Ann Veronica'' is a novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909. It describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty", against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the conte ...
'' (1949), adapted from the
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doollee.com quickly proved a commercial failure. Gow was co-credited for the book used in the musical version of ''Ann Veronica'' which premiered in 1969. His other adaptations include Vita Sackville-West's ''The Edwardians'' and ''A Boston Story'' (1966), based on Henry James' ''
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''.


Selected works

* ''
Love on the Dole ''Love on the Dole'' is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film. The novel Walter Greenwood's novel (1933) was written during the early 1930s as a respons ...
'' (1934) * '' Jenny Jones'' (1944)


References


External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gow, Ronald 1897 births 1993 deaths People educated at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys People from Beaconsfield People from Heaton Moor English male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 20th-century English male writers