Sarah Gamp

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Sarah or Sairey Gamp was a nurse in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit, written by Charles Dickens and first published as a serial in 1843–1884. She was dissolute and drunk and became a notorious stereotype of the bad secular nurse in the early Victorian era, before the reforms of campaigners like Florence Nightingale. The caricature was popular with the British public and umbrellas became known as gamps after her own which was displayed with "particular ostentation". The character was based upon a real nurse described to Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Donald Hawes (2001), Who's Who in Dickens, Routledge, pp. 84–86, ISBN 9780415260299 
2. ^ Summers, Annette (1997), "Sairey Gamp: generating fact from fiction", Nursing Inquiry (Blackwell Publishing Ltd) 4 (1), doi:10.1111/j.1440-1800.1997.tb00132.x 

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