‘No comfort talking when there’s a man around’: Maura Laverty’s Tolka Row (1951) and a neglected tradition of popular drama at the Gate Theatre, Dublin by Finian O'Gorman

“… This essay presents a case for Maura Laverty’s play Tolka Row (1951) to be recognised as a highly-accomplished prototype of the soap opera in Ireland. It argues that Tolka Row is an important Irish iteration of a quintessentially modern form that swept across Europe and the rest of the world in tandem with advances in broadcasting in the twentieth century. …”
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Review: Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century by Rebekah Fitzsimmons

“…As I got older, I read further in the series and moved into the slightly older and more contemporary (i.e. sexy and soap-opera-esque) Nancy Drew Files. I read other series fiction, namely The Baby-Sitters Club, and then eventually found YA dystopian trilogies. …”
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