Sairey Gamp

Gamp, SaireySairey Gamp, illustration from The Characters of Charles Dickens Pourtrayed in a Series of Original Water Colour Sketches by Kyd, c. 1899.

Sairey Gamp, comic fictional character in Charles Dickens’s novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–44). Sarah Gamp, a high-spirited old Cockney, is a sketchily trained nurse-midwife who is as enthusiastic at laying out a corpse as she is at delivering a baby.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.
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Article Title: Sairey Gamp
Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published: 25 March 2021
Access Date: November 14, 2026