The following essay discusses Florence Upton and her mother, Bertha Upton. Few Americans are familiar with the Golliwogg, though some may know "Golliwog's Cakewalk" from Claude Debussy's Children's Corner suite (1908). The Oxford English Dictionary...
Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 - 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author most famous for her Golliwogg series of children's...