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The 1895 book included a character named the Golliwogg, who was first described as "a horrid sight, the blackest gnome", but who quickly turned out to be a friendly character, and is later attributed with a "kind face." A product of the blackface minstrel tradition, the Golliwogg had jet black skin bright red lips and wild woolly hair.
To afford tuition to art school, she illustrated a children's book entitled The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg. There she spent several years drawing and developing her artistic skills. Following the death of her father, she moved back to England with her mother and sisters when she was fourteen. The Golliwogg's Auto-Go-Cart, a 1901 book by Florence Kate Uptonįlorence Kate Upton was born in 1873 in Flushing, New York, United States, the daughter of English parents who had emigrated to the United States three years previously. In particular, the use of alternative names such as "golly" and "golly doll" has risen due to association with the pejorative term " wog", which many dictionaries say probably derived from the golliwog. Robertson's marmalade in the UK) have either withdrawn them as an icon or changed the name. Manufacturers who have used golliwogs as a motif (e.g. Changing political attitudes with regard to race have reduced the popularity and sales of golliwogs as toys. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia described the golliwog as "the least known of the major anti-black caricatures in the United States". While some people see the doll as an innocuous toy associated with childhood, it is considered by others as a racist caricature of black Africans alongside pickaninnies, minstrels, and mammy figures. Golliwogs were collected throughout the Caribbean Islands. For this reason, in the period following World War II, the golliwog was seen as a suitable soft toy for a young boy, akin to a teddy bear or a sock monkey. Though home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male. Today the word is regarded as a racial slur towards black people. The doll is characterised by jet black skin, eyes rimmed in white, exaggerated red lips and frizzy hair, a blackface minstrel tradition. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers, as a children's toy called the "golliwog", a portmanteau of golly and polliwog, and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s.
The golliwog, also spelled golliwogg or shortened to golly, is a doll-like character – created by cartoonist and author Florence Kate Upton – that appeared in children's books in the late 19th century, usually depicted as a type of rag doll. Florence Kate Upton's Golliwogg in formal minstrel attire in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg in 1895
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