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Charles Henry Ross (1835 – 12 October 1897) was an English writer and cartoonist.
''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.
Ross was the author of six novels in genres ranging from Gothic
Charles Henry Ross (1835 – 12 October 1897) was an English writer and cartoonist.
Biography
Ross created the fictional characterAlly Sloper
Alexander "Ally" Sloper is the eponymous fictional character of the British comic strip ''Ally Sloper''. First appearing in 1867, he is considered one of the earliest comic strip characters and he is regarded as the first recurring character in c ...
for the British magazine '' Judy'' in 1867, the popular character was spun off into his own comic, ''Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
''Ally Sloper's Half Holiday'' was a British comics magazine, first published on 3 May 1884. It is regarded to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Star Ally Sloper, a blustery, lazy schemer often found "sloping" ...
'', in 1884. Ross originally was the illustrator of the character until his French-born wife, under the pseudonym Marie Duval
Isabelle Émilie de Tessier (1847 – 1890) who worked under the pseudonym Marie Duval, was a French cartoonist, known as co-creator of the seminal cartoon character ''Ally Sloper''.
Biography
As co-creator of ''Ally Sloper'' with her husband C ...
, later took over the illustration. He had a son, Charles.
For a number of years, Ross was the editor of ''Judy''.
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
''Beeton's Christmas Annual'' was a British paperback magazine printed yearly between 1860 and 1898, founded by Samuel Orchart Beeton. The November 1887 issue contained a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle entitled ''A Study in Scarlet'' which introduced ...
''.Volume 31, p. 788. Sampson Low, 1868. At Google Books. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
penny dreadful
Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the nineteenth century in the United Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, and penny blood. The term typically referred to ...
s to light romances.
He died on 12 October 1897 in Clapham, London.
Work
''The Book of Cats''References
External links
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