Marie Duval : maverick Victorian cartoonist / Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin and Julian Waite.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: Work -- Finding a voice at Judy -- Marie Duval and the woman employee -- Marie Duval's theatre career and its impact on her drawings -- The children's book author: Queens & Kings and Other Things -- Marie Duval and the technologies of periodical publishing -- Part II: Depicting and performing -- The significance of Marie Duval's drawing style -- The relationship between performance and drawing: suggestive synaesthesia in Marie Duval's work -- The role of spectacle in Marie Duval's work -- A women's cartoonist?

Appendix 1: Questions of attribution -- Appendix 2: Questions of terminology and historicisation -- Bibliography -- Index

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