![Sairey Gamp character jug cream - Weetman Giftware circa 1960](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a8b614_401473f28ef8458cace994c5d81a55fd~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 in a cream colorway produced by Weetman Giftware of Tunstall, England, circa 1960. 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:
Weetman Giftware
England
circa 1960
Model #:
character jug
Size:
medium
Height:
3 1/2"
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