Anna Gaidash: Impossible Sisterhood: Representations of the Elderly Female Characters in Ripcord

Anna Gaidash Im/possible Sisterhood: Representations of the Elderly Female Characters in Ripcord The paper examines the literary portrayals of the elderly residents at the Senior Living Facility in David Linsay-Abaire’s comedy Ripcord (2017) in the context of literary gerontology. The purpose of the present paper echoes Wyatt-Brown statement, that “[a]ging is an important one of those…

Marie Lloyd -The One and Only- The Queen of the Music Halls

By Essie Fox This post was originally published here Recently the VV was invited to take part in a spectacular event when, as one of 32 Londoners, she gave a talk on the London Eye. Her event was based on Marie Lloyd, a superstar of the London halls and theatrical entertainments, whose career spanned the later…