"(""Parachute"" means ""shield from fall"".) The word ""umbrella"" evolved from the Latin ""umbella"" (an umbel is a flat-topped rounded flower) or ""umbra"", meaning shaded or shadow. In Britain, umbrellas were sometimes referred to as ""gamps"" after the character Mrs. Gamp in the Charles Dickens novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", although this usage is now obscure. Mrs. Gamp's character was well known for carrying an umbrella. ""Brolly"" is a slang word for umbrella, used often in Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Kenya. ""Bumbershoot"" is a fanciful Americanism from the late 19th century. In all written records, the oldest reference to"
"Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts. In an 1844 stage version of ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" authorised by Dickens at the Queen's Theatre Sarah Gamp was played by the actor and comedian Thomas Manders. Mrs. Gamp appears in ""Dickensian"", at first nursing Little Nell at the Old Curiosity Shop and later tending to Silas Wegg (from ""Our Mutual Friend""), played by Pauline Collins. Sarah Gamp Sarah or Sairey Gamp is a nurse in the novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844. Mrs. Gamp, as she is usually referred to, is dissolute, sloppy and generally drunk. She"
"a first name by Dickens and was hired to investigate the private lives of potential clients whom Montague hoped to defraud with his insurance scam. Sarah Gamp (also known as Sairey or Mrs Gamp). Sarah Gamp is an alcoholic who works as a midwife, monthly nurse, and layer-out of the dead. Even in a house of mourning, Mrs Gamp manages to enjoy all the hospitality a house can afford, with little regard for the person to whom she is there to minister; and she is often much the worse for drink. In her nursing activities, she constantly refers to a"
"NHS staff. There have been three distinct changes made to the NHS pension. The type of pension someone is enrolled onto is referred to by the year that it was introduced or changed 1995, 2008 & 2015. Whilst nursing has modernised significantly, the image of nursing can remain steadfastly considered as something akin to Hattie Jacques in a Carry on film such as Carry On Matron. Mrs Gamp – Sarah or Sairey Gamp is a nurse in the novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844. Mrs. Gamp, as she is usually referred to, is"
"Martin Chuzzlewit (TV series) Martin Chuzzlewit is a 1994 TV serial produced by the BBC, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, with a screenplay by David Lodge and directed by Pedr James. The music was composed by Geoffrey Burgon. BBC2 originally broadcast the 85 minute for 1 episode and the further of 60 minutes for final 5 episodes from 7 November to 12 December 1994. Elderly, wealthy Martin Chuzzlewit is constantly hounded by his money-grubbing relations, a fact that depresses and embitters him. He adopts an orphan young woman, Mary Graham, whom he wants as a companion in his"
"night-nurse Sairah Gamp as ""the best of creeturs""—in his novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"": A glimpse of Mrs Prig's nursing technique is afforded by the following exchange, as Sairah Gamp arrives to take over from Mrs Prig in the supervision of a patient: Another famous portrait of a prig is that of Malvolio in Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"". Robert. E. Ornstein has carefully detailed the characteristics of Malvolio's priggishness: Those who do not enjoy Malvolio would reduce him to a conventional killjoy, a scapegoat who deserves to be held up to ridicule because of his officious humourlessness. There would be a need to"
"her. He also finds himself drawn into a fraudulent insurance scheme masterminded by Tigg Montague, and concocts a murderous plot in order to extricate himself from this. Meanwhile, Mr Chuffey, Anthony's senile clerk, goes into shock in the event of Anthony's sudden death and sleazy private nurse Sarah Gamp is hired to care for him. Martin Chuzzlewit (TV series) Martin Chuzzlewit is a 1994 TV serial produced by the BBC, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, with a screenplay by David Lodge and directed by Pedr James. The music was composed by Geoffrey Burgon. BBC2 originally broadcast the 85"
"bit."" In cinema, the CGI movie ""Barbie in a Christmas Carol"" features a snooty cat named Chuzzlewit who is the pet of Barbie's character Eden Starling. John Travolta's character quotes from the novel in ""A Love Song for Bobby Long"". The novel features prominently in Jasper Fforde's novel ""The Eyre Affair"". Martin Chuzzlewit The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it his best work,"
"into the workhouse system in Britain from the 1860s onwards. This meant that sick paupers were no longer being cared for by other, able-bodied paupers, but by properly trained nursing staff. In the first half of the 19th century, nurses were usually former servants or widows who found no other job and therefore were forced to earn their living by this work. Charles Dickens caricatured the standard of care in his 1842–1843 published novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" in the figure of Sarah Gamp as being incompetent, negligent, alcoholic and corrupt. According to Caroline Worthington, director of the Florence Nightingale Museum, “When"
"public at many levels, as ""his front line soldiers"". Although his approach to industrial relations has been judged as paternalistic, his concern for workers' conditions was genuine and he was personally responsible for improvements such as better sanitation facilities and the provision of decent cafeterias at Newport Workshops. Harold Clapp's fastidiousness for cleanliness was legendary. He was reputed to polish his shoes up to eight times a day, was renowned for running a finger along high shelves of country railway stations checking for dust, and earned the nickname ""Clever Mary"", after a popular brand of household cleaning product of the"
"27 January. At first, the character was simply called ""Miss Nugent""; it wasn't until 1962 that she was given the name ""Emily"" by the show's writers. She continued to be credited on the programme as ""Miss Nugent"" until 1969. Although rarely seen, the set of Emily's kitchen is the oldest surviving set. (The second oldest set is Ken's kitchen, with the famous avocado-green tiles.) All other sets have been redecorated at least once since we first saw Emily's kitchen. Emily's back room/parlour, however, was redecorated off screen. In the story a fire was caused by a candle left unattended by"
"Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,"
"2001. Gwen Anderson, also known as Madam, is a typical white South African woman. The original ""Madam"" is loosely based on Stephen Francis' own mother-in-law, also named Gwen. Of her family we have met one son, Eric, and her mother and aunt. Eve Sisulu is Madam's ""domestic maintenance assistant."" Eve frequently opens a booth selling different goods and services for a side income, and is sometimes found asleep on her ironing board, both deliberate homages to Charles Schulz' Peanuts (Lucy and Snoopy, respectively). When Schulz died, a tribute cartoon appeared showing Eve sleeping on a kennel and Snoopy sleeping on"
"nails and he is thick as a plank. Maisie bears resemblance to Lucy van Pelt in Charles Schulz's ""Peanuts"" strip. The British actress Maisie Williams was christened Margaret but has always been known as Maisie, after the character. A toddler, possibly named after the ""Baby Dumpling"" character in the US comic strip ""Blondie"". In the early days of the strip he did not speak, because he knew that once he started he would be expected to keep talking all the time. When he finally began to speak he did so in lower-case letters. In the early days of the strip"
"road formed the distinct Bow Road we see today. Between 1806 and 1827 the clown Joseph Grimaldi lived here. It was whilst “ghost writing” Grimaldi’s memoirs that Charles Dickens probably first stayed at the farm during 1836 and 1837. Later, in 1843, he returned and wrote portions of Martin Chuzzlewit, conceiving the character of 'Sairey' Gamp whilst out walking in Finchley. The Farm’s fields were realised for building, as the Etchingham Park Estate, between 1878 and 1920, the farm itself disappearing in 1905. Two institutions occupied the fields within the bow of Bow Lane. Finchley Cottage Hospital opened with 18"
"arouses her lover's jealousy and naively ignores social conventions. Mrs. Hungerford and this book are mentioned in chapter 18 of James Joyce's ""Ulysses"": ""Molly Bawn"" contains Hungerford's most famous idiom: Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, née Hamilton, (27 April 1855 – 24 January 1897), was an Irish novelist whose light romantic fiction was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the late 19th century. She was born in County Cork, Ireland on 27 April 1855. Her father was Canon Fitzjohn Stannus Hamilton, rector and vicar-choral at St. Faughnan's cathedral in Rosscarbery. As a child she enjoyed making up stories, and"
"that ""her"" native country's food is just as interesting as gorditas. Mrs. Trevino has been phased away from the strip, as has Clutch, now that Ms. Plainwell (Mrs. Trevino's former best friend) and Frazz are in a relationship. Clutch – Frazz's friend & fellow runner/cyclist. Works as an emergency room nurse. Many of the characters or locations in the strip are references to real-life people whom Mallett respects or other aspects of his life. In addition to various literary figures. In a 2008 interview, Mallett said that Bryson Elementary is named after one of his favorite authors, Bill Bryson. Because"
"cohesion in the group. These peculiarities were often described in trials and libels, often to be put on public display and disapproval. Some of the uses seemed to be: the ""Marshal"" was complimented by the Company with the Titles of ""Madam"" and ""Ladyship"".From James Dalton's ""A Genuine Narrative of all the Street Robberies Committed since October last"":Their chief Names are as follows. ""Ellinor Roden"", ""China Mary"", ""Flying Horse Moll"", ""Smal Coal Mary"", J""ohannah the Ox-cheek Woman, Tub Nan,' Sukey Pisquill, Garter Mary, Hardward Nan, Prety Criss"", a Soldier of the 2d Regiment, ""Aunt England"", a noted Soap Boyler, ""Pomegranate Molly,"
"At home, she renews an acquaintance with her ex-fiance Parke-Laine. She also meets, and is forced to work with, a high-ranking Goliath operative named Jack Schitt, who is similarly investigating Hades. Hades, meanwhile, steals the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's ""Martin Chuzzlewit"". He also kidnaps Mycroft, Polly, and the Prose Portal in order to blackmail the literary world; any changes made to the plot of a novel's original manuscript will change all other copies. To demonstrate his demands are serious, Hades kills Mr Quaverley, a minor character from the original manuscript of ""Martin Chuzzlewit"". When his demands are not met,"
"least 1894 with a play depicting a girl called Molly who fell ill with toothache only to find, on extraction, that a nail was causing her the pain. There is another play featuring Fat Jack, a comic servant. The Shakespearean scholar and collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps lived in Islip in the 1840s. Early in the 1920s Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson lived here, and Graves describes their life in the village in ""Goodbye to All That"". In 2014 the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board unveiled a blue plaque to Graves on the house that"
"she will receive nothing from him in his will. The older Martin expects that this will give Mary a strong interest in keeping him alive and well. Mary and old Martin Chuzzlewit's grandson fall in love, thus giving her an interest in the elder Chuzzlewit's death. The two lovers are separated by the events of the book, but are eventually reunited. Mr Chuffey is Anthony Chuzzlewit's old clerk and lifelong companion. Jefferson Brick is a war correspondent in ""The New York Rowdy Journal"". Mr Bailey is physically of small build and employed by the fraudster Montague Tigg and has been"
"gives him the choice of reading and writing a book report on ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", or simply writing an article for the school paper. In ""The Simpsons"" episode ""Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"", Lisa Simpson lists it as one of the books that she would receive from the Greater Books of the Western Civilization. In the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Unquiet Dead"", The Doctor expresses his admiration for Dickens' works but criticises ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", saying, ""Mind you, for God's sake, the American bit in ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", what's that about? Was that just padding? Or what? I mean, it's rubbish, that"
"and the elder Martin Chuzzlewit character, although the miser is ""a more fantastic image"" than the Chuzzlewit patriarch; Ackroyd observes that Chuzzlewit's transformation to a charitable figure is a parallel to that of the miser. Douglas-Fairhurst sees that the minor character Gabriel Grub from ""The Pickwick Papers"" was also an influence when creating Scrooge. The story of ""A Christmas Carol"" starts on Christmas Eve 1843 with Scrooge at his money-lending business. He hates Christmas as a ""humbug"" and subjects his clerk, Bob Cratchit, to grueling hours and low pay of only 15 shillings on a normal week (giving him Christmas"
"Martin Chuzzlewit The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it his best work, but it was one of his least popular novels. Like nearly all of Dickens' novels, ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" was released to the public in monthly instalments. Early sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, compared to previous works, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to America. This allowed"
"The position often features in fiction. One notable character is Ebeneezer Scrooge's charwoman Mrs. Dilber who appears in Charles Dickens's ""A Christmas Carol"". In 1926, Lord Dunsany's fantasy novel, ""The Charwoman's Shadow"" was published to good reviews. Another well-known fictional charwoman is Ada Harris, the central character in Paul Gallico's novel ""Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris"" and its three sequels. In the British radio comedy series ""It's That Man Again,"" Dorothy Summers played the part of Mrs Mopp, an office char whose catch phrase was ""Can I do you now, Sir?"" (i.e., ""May I clean your office now, Sir?"" but"
"to Charles Dickens' Mr. Pickwick and company. In chapter four of ""Cordelia Underwood"", Cordelia finds a copy of ""The Pickwick Papers"" in her uncle's trunk. Author Van Reid says that the names of the characters Ephram, Eagleton and Thump were chosen to evoke the sound of a heavy object falling downstairs. The name Tobias was consciously borrowed from the character of Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne’s ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman""; Walton from Izaak Walton, author of ""The Compleat Angler"". Ephram, Eagleton, and Thump adhere to different political parties, go to separate churches, subscribe to different newspapers,"
"line to the works of Charles Dickens in England, particularly his 1838 work ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (which featured a similar storyline), and the 1844 novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", which also featured criticisms of class society in the United States. The story centres on the wealthy and prosperous Harley family, consisting of: Frank (the father), Gazella (the mother), and their nine children. After a series of bad investments results in bankruptcy, the Harleys are forced into destitution, which in turn leads to Frank's untimely death from excessive drinking. Gazella continues life as a seamstress in order to provide for her children, two of"
"woman and her nymphomaniacal mother, and various other freaks and weirdos. During one dream sequence, the infamous Foot Foot, from the song by The Shaggs, gnaws on Clay's leg. The happy-face icon of ""Mr. Jones"" also appears in various places through the story, tattooed into people, carved on to Clay's foot, as a ghost-like character, in Hitler's birthmark, and on the sign for Value Ape shops. It signifies the way in which logos pervade our societies, and links to the conspiracy elements of the story. The true nature of the potato-woman's father is never learned by Mr. Loudermilk, but the"
"simply minds her business and carries out your orders in a jiffy.Laurie was a Scottish carpenter who made his ""Lazy Susan"" to the design of a Hingham-area lady; finishing the device too late for her to present it as a gift, Laurie received an abusive tirade and then, asked for the price, ""told her it wasn’t for sale, though of course it is"". The name was repeated in a 1911 ""Idaho Statesman"" article which describes it as ""a cousin to the <nowiki>'</nowiki>curate's assistant<nowiki>'</nowiki>, as the English muffin stand is called"" and again in the 1912 ""Christian Science Monitor"", which calls"
"facilities in Australia and England have been named after Chisholm, as well as a suburb of Canberra and a federal electoral division. The Federal Government Department of Human Services' headquarters, located in Tuggeranong (ACT), is named after her (the building is known as the CCC, i.e. Caroline Chisholm Centre). Chisholm has also appeared on Australian stamps and banknotes; she appeared on the $5 note, 1967–91. In Charles Dickens's novel ""Bleak House"" the character of Mrs Jellyby is said to be an amalgamation of three women of the period, including Chisholm. There is also the novel ""Streets of dust: a novel"
"Hollywood gossip columnist; Doris Swizzler, a cocktail-lounge habituée who always got riotously smashed with husband Leonard (Dick Martin); and one of the Burbank Airlines Stewardesses, teaming with Debbie Reynolds as two totally inconsiderate flight attendants. Her most famous character was dowdy spinster Gladys Ormphby, clad in drab brown with her bun hairdo covered by a visible hairnet knotted in the middle of her forehead. Buzzi first used this look when she played Agnes Gooch in a school production of ""Auntie Mame"". In most sketches, she used her lethal purse, with which she would flail away vigorously at anyone who incurred"
"Pricklepin; Old Woman in a Shoe, Knitting; Mrs. ""Cotton-tail"" at Lunchtime; another figurine of the Amiable Guinea Pig; and Two Gentelman Rabbits from the frontispiece. All the figurines were retired by 2002. In 1975 Crummles of Dorset began producing 1 and 5/8 inch (41.3 mm) diameter enamelled boxes depicting scenes and characters from the Potter tales. Little Black Rabbit and Old Mr. Pricklepin were the only two characters from ""Appley Dapply"" released. In 1994 and 1995 Crummles was commissioned to create exclusive works for an American distributor. Little Black Rabbit was produced, and a stamp box depicting scenes from both"
"Margaret Clap Margaret Clap (died c. 1726), better known as Mother Clap, ran a coffee house from 1724 to 1726 in Holborn, Middlesex, a short distance from the City of London. Notable for running a molly house, an inn or tavern primarily frequented by homosexual men, she was also heavily involved in the ensuing legal battles after her premises were raided and shut down. While not much is known about her life, she was an important part of the gay subculture of early 18th-century England. At the time sodomy in England was a crime under the Buggery Act 1533, punishable"