Charles Henry Ross

Page 79 of a 1868 Charles Henry Ross' Book of Cats.

Charles Henry Ross (1835 – 12 October 1897) was an English writer and cartoonist.

Biography

With his French-born wife, under the pseudonym Marie Duval, Ross created in 1867 Ally Sloper.[1]

He contributed a series of engravings, entitled "A Happy Day in a Varlet's Life. In a Series of Hard Lines", to the Ninth Season (1868) of Beeton's Christmas Annual.[2]

He died in London.

References

  1. Sabin, Roger (1993) Adult Comics: An Introduction, "Do comics that feature 'women's issues' automatically attract more women readers? ... (and possibly occasionally the artist as well) was Emily de Tessier, working under the pseudonym Marie Duvall, the wife of Sloper's creator Charles Ross."
  2. The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, Volume 31, p. 788. Sampson Low, 1868. At Google Books. Retrieved 5 June 2014.


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