As soon as Florence saw him, she knew she had found her protagonist. 'As the Golliwogg has always seemed to me to be telling me his own biography, so in the same way he must have told me his own ...

The Golliwog, originally spelt "Golliwogg," began life as a character in a book published in London in 1895 titled The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls by Florence Kate Upton. The book revolves ...

What's more, the doll was kept with the original Golliwogg Book by illustrator Florence Upton. Almost certainly the presence of the two items will have been known to Carol, who regularly visited ...