Sarah Gamp from 'Martin Chuzzlewit

Category

Library Item

Item no

24873

Title

Sarah Gamp from 'Martin Chuzzlewit' (caption)

Description

The caption page for the illustration of Sarah Gamp is decorated with a simple drawing of a steaming kettle.

Artist / maker

Fraser, Claud Lovat

Date

1924

Size

10.0 x 8.5 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens' sixth novel and written after a self-imposed break from novel writing for a trip to America and Canada.
Sairey Gamp is one of Dickens' more colourful characters. She is a nurse, mid-wife and a 'layer out' of the dead. She is a fat talkative woman who tends to drink.

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