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<h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 8px;line-height:1.3;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.008em"><font size="2">First
 person to write directly to me, from anywhere in the world, can be the reviewer. PDF will be 
provided.<br></font></h1><div><br></div><div>Mike Rhode</div><div><a href="mailto:mrhode@gmail.com">mrhode@gmail.com</a></div>

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<i style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist</i><span style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><span> </span>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.<span> </span></span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist</i><span style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><span> </span>establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.</span>

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