![Sairey Gamp character jug - Great Yarmouth Potteries circa 1990](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a8b614_ff1e180052f3407d8a4f6ad7c2dd20bb~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_280,h_419,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Image-place-holder_edited_edited_edited_.jpg)
Sairey Gamp character jug produced by Great Yarmouth Potteries of Great Yarmouth, England, circa 1990. Sairey Gamp, or Mrs. Gamp as she is more commonly known, is a nurse in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843-1844. Mrs. Gamp is dissolute, sloppy and generally drunk. She became a notorious stereotype of untrained and incompetent nurses of the early Victorian era, before the reforms of campaigners like Florence Nightingale. The caricature was popular with the British public. A type of umbrella became known as a gamp because Sairey Gamp always carries one, which she displays with "particular ostentation". The character was based upon a real nurse described to Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts.
Maker:
Great Yarmouth Potteries
England
circa 1990
Model #:
character jug
Size:
small
Height:
3"
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