Gamp

Mr. Rostance in the role of Mrs. Gamp, is the; result of a conversation he had some years ago with his wife.

Christmas Meeting 1945

Mrs. Gamp is preparing to entertain her frequent pardner, Betsy Prig.

Christmas Meeting 1945

Yet still a touch of the amusing clings to the "Gamp," as it is sarcastically called.

Umbrellas and Their History William Sangster 1848

As Peter Ackroyd commented in his Dickens (1990), he must have been “thinking here of Hamlet and Lear, of Macbeth and Prospero, but is it not also true” that in Portsmouth in February 1812 were born “Pecksniff and Scrooge, Oliver Twist and Sairey Gamp, Samuel Pickwick and Nicholas Nickleby … the Artful Dodger and Wackford Squeers …?”

The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

As Peter Ackroyd commented in his Dickens (1990), he must have been “thinking here of Hamlet and Lear, of Macbeth and Prospero, but is it not also true” that in Portsmouth in February 1812 were born “Pecksniff and Scrooge, Oliver Twist and Sairey Gamp, Samuel Pickwick and Nicholas Nickleby … the Artful Dodger and Wackford Squeers …?”

The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

As Peter Ackroyd commented in his Dickens (1990), he must have been “thinking here of Hamlet and Lear, of Macbeth and Prospero, but is it not also true” that in Portsmouth in February 1812 were born “Pecksniff and Scrooge, Oliver Twist and Sairey Gamp, Samuel Pickwick and Nicholas Nickleby … the Artful Dodger and Wackford Squeers …?”

The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

As Peter Ackroyd commented in his Dickens (1990), he must have been “thinking here of Hamlet and Lear, of Macbeth and Prospero, but is it not also true” that in Portsmouth in February 1812 were born “Pecksniff and Scrooge, Oliver Twist and Sairey Gamp, Samuel Pickwick and Nicholas Nickleby … the Artful Dodger and Wackford Squeers …?”

The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

She read Dickens to them and recited the parts of Sairy Gamp from Martin Chuzzlewit.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

Gamp, as a means of interesting and propitiating her patron, affected a deep solicitude in Mr Chuffey.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

He believed he knew the old lady whose acquaintance they had made, he said; and that he might venture to say, from their description of her, that her name was Gamp.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006