Happy Hooligan –

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Nov 27, 1913

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Maverick Victorian Cartoonist –

 Marie Duval

"...her pictures are not imitations of Mr. C.H. Ross's absurd style and can be very easily distinguished from that gentleman's production, because Mademoiselle is an artist, and C.H. Ross is not." – Charles Henry Ross, 1869

Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier [1847–1890]), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval’s vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner. The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance. It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval’s drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity. Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian cartoonist, Roger Sabin, Simon Grennan, Julian Waite, Manchester University Press, 2020

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Marie Duval ARCHIVE

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