Gladfest 2019: Simon Grennan - Drawing In Drag by Gladstone's Library

Join one of Gladfest’s most notable, energetic speakers for another trip into the surprising side of the Victorian age. In 2017 Simon found an illustrated novel, published in 1877, on the shelves at Chetham’s Library, Manchester. The Story of a Honeymoon was written and illustrated by Charles H. Ross and Ambrose Clarke – but Simon knew better. Having spent some years immersed in Victorian cartooning Simon was well-placed to identify that Ambrose Clarke was in fact, the cross-dressing, comic-strip-writing, Ally-Sloper-drawing, very-much-female Marie Duval (1845-1890). Simon tells more of his extraordinary discovery.