Golliwogg

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Golliwogg (later Golliwog) is a character of children's literature created by Florence Kate Upton in the late 19th century, inspired by a blackface minstrel doll which Upton found as a child in her aunt's attic in Hampstead, North London. The character, depicted in the books as a type of rag doll, was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers as...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Golliwogg (later Golliwog) is a character of children's literature created by Florence Kate Upton in the late 19th century, inspired by a blackface minstrel doll which Upton found as a child in her aunt's attic in Hampstead, North London. The character, depicted in the books as a type of rag doll, was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children's toy. The toy was known as a golliwog, and had great popularity in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, into the 1960s. While home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male. For this reason, in the period following World War II, the golliwog was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy.