Parody on “Uncle Ned” Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1852
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<artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>DGR wrote his satire on Stowe's celebrated novel <title level="bk"> <xref doc="a.stowe001.rad" link="dead"> <hi rend="i">Uncle Tom's Cabin</hi> </xref> in 1852 or perhaps 1853—in any case, not long after the novel appeared in 1852. The associated drawing must date from the same time. WMR believes DGR may not have read, or at any rate finished, the book which WMR—unlike his brother—quite admired (as one would expect). The difference in the social and political attitudes of the two men is nicely illustrated in their different opinions about Stowe's book. WMR stood firmly with Mill's view, articulated in his 1850 essay “The Negro Question”, which was a response to Carlyle's jingoist essay of 1849, “Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question”. According to WMR, DGR was amused by Carlyle's essay and as WMR wrote when he first published the parody in 1898, “in some sense” agreed with Carlyle. Both of these essays first appeared in Fraser's Magazine

The text is a parody of Stephen Foster's minstrel song “Old Uncle Ned”, first published in 1848. The drawing was probably made to accompany the poem, rather than the other way round.

Textual History: Composition

No manuscript for the poem has appeared.

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Printing History

The parody and the drawing were first published together by WMR in 1898 in <xref doc="a.ap4.n12.16.rad" from="494" to="495"> <hi rend="i">The Pall Mall Magazine</hi> </xref> (vol. 16, 493-494) and first collected in 1911.

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1911 See WMR's note, (1911) 1911 edition <hi rend="i">Pall Mall Magazine</hi> reproduction Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life H. C. Marillier 1899 0 The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911) Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti 1911 0 ‘Uncle Tom’ DGR 1852 (circa) pen and ink 1