Marie Duval

Isabelle Émilie de Tessier (25 September 1847 – 11 June 1890),[2] who worked under the pseudonyms Marie Duval and Ambrose Clarke, was a British cartoonist, known as co-creator of the seminal cartoon character Ally Sloper,[3][4][5][1] the popular character was spun off into his own comic, Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, in 1884.

[1] In 1869 joined three other women cartoonists contributing to the British satirical magazine Judy, edited by Ross, signing her work as Marie Duval.

[8] Duval was the author of Queens and Kings and Other Things (1874), a collection of illustrated nonsense verse published under the pseudonym of "S. A. the Princess Hesse Schwartzbourg".

[1] She also co-wrote Rattletrap Rhymes and Tootletum Tales: a Big Book for Babies (1876) with Ross, using the pseudonym Ambrose Clarke.

[1] In 1871, Duval had an affair with Herbert Augustus Such, and was a correspondent in the high profile divorce case brought by his wife in 1873.