"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"
"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"
"she [Nightingale] started out there was no such thing as nursing. The Dickens character Sarah Gamp, who was more interested in drinking gin than looking after her patients, was only a mild exaggeration. Hospitals were places of last resort where the floors were laid with straw to soak up the blood. Florence transformed nursing when she got back [from Crimea]. She had access to people in high places and she used it to get things done. Florence was stubborn, opinionated and forthright but she had to be those things in order to achieve all that she did."" Though Nightingale is"
"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"
"into English. Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the narrator identifies the novel's protagonist as Sarah Woodruff, the ""Woman"" of the title, also known as ""Tragedy"" and as ""The French Lieutenant's Whore"". She lives in the coastal town of Lyme Regis as a disgraced woman, supposedly abandoned by a French ship's officer named Varguennes who had returned to France and married. She spends some of her limited free time on The Cobb, a stone jetty where she stares out to sea. One day, Charles Smithson, an orphaned gentleman, and Ernestina Freeman, his fiancée and a daughter of a wealthy tradesman, see"
"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"
"Mrs Harris, who is in fact ""a phantom of Mrs Gamp's brain ... created for the express purpose of holding visionary dialogues with her on all manner of subjects, and invariably winding up with a compliment to the excellence of her nature."" She habitually carries with her a battered black umbrella: so popular with the Victorian public was the character that ""Gamp"" became a slang word for an umbrella in general. The character was based upon a real nurse described to Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts. Mary Graham is the caretaker of old Martin Chuzzlewit, who has told her"
"(1965), and ""The Owl Service"" (1967). The latter work is an adaptation of the myth of Blodeuwedd from the ""Mabinogion"", set in modern Wales, and for it Garner won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author. Mary Norton wrote ""The Borrowers"" (1952), featuring tiny people who borrow from humans. Dodie Smith's ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" was published in 1956. Philippa Pearce's ""Tom's Midnight Garden"" (1958) has him opening the garden door at night and entering into a different age. The heroine of ""Charlotte Sometimes"" by Penelope Farmer (1969)"
"Maurice, who arrives quickly on the scene, calls the police and at the same time ensures that Philippa is not charged with any crime or misdemeanour. In an epilogue chapter Philippa meets Norman Scase after a service in the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, where she is a student. It emerges that she has published a book under her new name, Philippa Ducton, and also that Norman has found love with Violet, the blind helper at the hotel where he stayed when he was spying on Philippa's adoptive mother. ""P. D. James chose to write a novel in which crime"
"administrator Stephen Lime. The book takes its name from a song from Warren Zevon's 1991 album ""Mr. Bad Example"". It was followed by the best seller Country of the Blind in 1997 which again involved Jack Parlabane. Journalist Jack Parlabane gets accidentally locked out and, entering a neighbour's flat, stumbles into a bizarre crime scene, the victim a horribly mutilated Dr Jeremy Ponsonby. With Parlabane found suspicious and taken in for questioning, Ponsonby's ex-wife, Dr Sarah Slaughter, later enters the unattended crime scene in an attempt to accept his death. Finding a plastic ampoule dropped at the scene, Sarah collects"
"based on Broadway, Worcestershire, from where she brought to Tilling her celebrated recipe for Lobster ""à la Riseholme"". ""Mallards"", the home of Miss Mapp—and subsequently Lucia—was based on Lamb House in Rye. The house had previously been the residence of Henry James and had a garden room overlooking the street (unfortunately a German bomb destroyed the Garden Room in World War II. The rest of the house is now a National Trust property.) The novels, in chronological order, are: The first three books concern only the protagonist named in the title; the last three feature both Mapp ""and"" Lucia. In"
"the party and gradually comes to admire this stranger's act, which she considers an effort to preserve the purity of his happiness. Sir William Bradshaw is a famous psychiatrist to whom Septimus' physician, Dr. Holmes, refers Septimus. Bradshaw notes that Septimus has had a complete nervous breakdown and suggests spending time in the country as a cure. Clarissa Dalloway is the 51-year-old protagonist of the novel. She is Richard's wife and Elizabeth's mother, and, while reminiscing about her past, spends the day organising a party that will be held that night. She is self-conscious about her role in London high"
"Care"" (1982) and ""Our Winnie"" (1982). She played Calpurnia and Mistress Quickly for the BBC's Shakespeare series, appeared in ""Doctor Who"" in the 1987 Sylvester McCoy serial ""Paradise Towers"" and was the title witch in a children's series called ""Simon and the Witch"" (1987). In 1990, she gave a memorable performance as one of the God-fearing gossips in the BBC adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"" and in 1992, was in television versions of Kingsley Amis's ""The Old Devils"" and Angus Wilson's ""Anglo-Saxon Attitudes"". In 1994, she played the midwife Mrs Gamp in the BBC's adaptation"
"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"
"task. The rest is the madness of art."" Dencombe, a novelist who has been seriously ill, is convalescing at the English seaside town of Bournemouth. He is sitting near the water and reading his latest book entitled, of course, ""The Middle Years"". A young physician named Dr. Hugh comes over to Dencombe and begins to talk about his admiration for the novel, though he doesn't realize that he's speaking to the book's author. The weakened Dencombe suddenly loses consciousness. When he revives, he finds that Dr. Hugh has recognized him, and that the physician is also attending a wealthy woman"
"""wearisome to the last degree"" (Chapman 1999, p. 28). The novel's title (imposed by Dickens) focuses on the difference in lifestyle between rural southern England, inhabited by the landed gentry and agricultural workers, and the industrial north, populated by capitalist manufacturers and poverty-stricken mill workers; the north-south division was cultural and geographical. The story centres on haughty Margaret Hale, who learns to overcome her prejudices against the North in general and charismatic manufacturer John Thornton in particular. Gaskell would have preferred to call the novel ""Margaret Hale"" (as she had done in 1848 for her novel ""Mary Barton""), but Dickens"
"with Katlin Biddlecomb, after which her husband, John Biddlecomb retreated from the world, only to return to his friends a few weeks later, after which he was killed. Thomas Biddlecomb is the hypothetical son of Sarah and John Biddlecomb. When Sarah was pregnant with her second child, her first being Isaac Biddlecomb, the family decided to name the child Katlin if it was a girl, Thomas if it was a boy. The child turned out to be a girl, and died, along with her mother in childbirth. The nameless carpenter of the USS ""Charlemagne"". Dibin is a sailor aboard the"
"angel was promoted in the 19th century as a counter to the then image of a nurse as a dissolute drunk, exemplified by Dickens' Sarah Gamp. The model nurse in this image was moral, noble and religious, like a devout nun—chaste and abstemious—rather than an unpleasant witch. Her skills would be practical and her demeanour would be stoic and obedient. Florence Nightingale promoted this image because, at the time, the idea of having female nurses attending the British army fighting the Crimean war was controversial, being thought immoral and revolutionary. The media has a strong influence on public views, shaping"
"is ""Tom's Midnight Garden"" by Philippa Pearce, the 1958 Carnegie Medal winner, where the protagonist has dreamlike encounters at different points in time. Earlier there was Ronald Welch's ""The Gauntlet"" (1951, back to the Welsh Marches in the 14th century), and Hilda Lewis's perennially popular ""The Ship that Flew"" (1939), which uses time travel to convey characters to the age of Norse gods and heroes. In Alison Uttley's ""A Traveller in Time"" (1939), the girl slips back into the period when Queen Elizabeth I of England has imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots in Derbyshire. In Elinor Lyon's ""The Golden Shore"""
"1872. However, neither Blake Hall nor Thorpe Green, another house where Anne was employed as a governess, corresponds exactly with Grassdale. Linden-Car, the village that Wildfell Hall stands close to, is in Yorkshire. ""Car"" in northern dialect means pool, pond or low-lying and boggy ground. Lindenhope ""hope"" in Northeastern English means a small enclosed valley. The novel is divided into three volumes. Part One (Chapters 1 to 15): Gilbert Markham narrates how a mysterious widow, Mrs Helen Graham, arrives at Wildfell Hall, a nearby mansion. A source of curiosity for the small community, the reticent Mrs Graham and her young"
"a public-house in the Borough, to get ""gloriously drunk"" and which had been taken from his person on a commitment to Bridewell many years before as a rogue and vagabond."" (""The Illustrated London News"", 1843) Francis Hobler also appears on more than one occasion in the writings of Charles Dickens and George Augustus Sala. ""The Lord Mayor threw himself back in his chair, in a state of frantic delight at his own joke; every vein in Mr. Hobler's countenance was swollen with laughter partly at the Lord Mayor's facetiousness, but more at his own; the constables and police officers were"
"licentiousness and glorification of abuse. Pamela Andrews is a pious, innocent fifteen-year-old who works as Lady B's maidservant in Bedfordshire. The novel starts after Lady B has died, when her son, the squire Mr. B, begins to pay Pamela more attention, first giving her his mother's clothes, then trying to seduce her in the Summer House. When he wants to pay her to keep his failed attempt at seduction a secret, she refuses and tells Mrs. Jervis, the housekeeper, her best friend at the house. Undaunted, he hides in her closet and pops out and tries to kiss her as"
"""scrooge"", for example, is a miser – or someone who dislikes Christmas festivity. His characters were often so memorable that they took on a life of their own outside his books. ""Gamp"" became a slang expression for an umbrella from the character Mrs Gamp, and ""Pickwickian"", ""Pecksniffian"", and ""Gradgrind"" all entered dictionaries due to Dickens's original portraits of such characters who were, respectively, quixotic, hypocritical, and vapidly factual. Many were drawn from real life: Mrs Nickleby is based on his mother, though she didn't recognise herself in the portrait, just as Mr Micawber is constructed from aspects of his father's"
"distracted ... that the rivers of the South were encumbered with bodies of the violently drowned by night..."" Later a crowd is ""swelling and overflowing out into the adjacent streets ... the Carmagnole absorbed them every one and whirled them away."" During the fight with Miss Pross, Madame Defarge clings to her with ""more than the hold of a drowning woman"". Commentators on the novel have noted the irony that Madame Defarge is killed by her own gun, and perhaps Dickens means by the above quote to suggest that such vicious vengefulness as Madame Defarge's will eventually destroy even its"
"the infirmary when Pip at last tells him that his child, Estella, is alive. Pip goes on to tell him that she is a beautiful lady and that he, Pip, was in love with her. Pip has found this information out, as Wemmick told him Molly's story and he recognized her to be Estella's mother. With a last pressure on Pip's hand, Magwitch dies a good and very content man. Charles Barrow, Charles Dickens' maternal grandfather, had been the Head of the Moneys Section at the Navy Pay Office. In 1810 it was found that he had been systematically falsifying"
"in Hallie Rubenhold's ""The Covent Garden Ladies"" (2005), as well as in Nicholas Clee's ""Eclipse: the Story of the Rogue, the Madam and the Horse That Changed Racing"" (2009). It is also discussed in Fergus Linnane's, ""London, the Wicked City"", as well as in several books by E. J. Burford. The TV series, Harlots, drew from Hayes' lifetime fot its plot. Charlotte Hayes Charlotte Hayes (c. 1725–1813) was a highly successful brothel keeper in early Georgian London, and the owner of some of the city's most luxurious brothels in and around King's Place, in St James's. Although the precise details"
"mother-in-law's house, where he wrote three further novels, none of which enjoyed great success. ""The Steward: a Romance of Real Life"" (1850), describes the downfall of George Croly, a Suffolk country gentleman, who is uncategorically lambasted as an evil, duplicitous person. An angry vitriolic work, ""The Steward"" possibly reflects the author's own feelings at the time. ""Lady Felicia"" (1852), a Cinderella inspired story about a shop assistant who marries a titled lady, is of some interest for its setting in Sudbury in Suffolk, against a background of local political corruption, a theme which had featured in the Pickwick Papers. ""Percy"
"""The Pickwick Papers"" (1836–1837), ""David Copperfield"" (1849–1850), and most extensively in ""Little Dorrit"" (1855–1857), whose main character, Amy, is born in the Marshalsea. Trey Philpotts writes that every detail about the Marshalsea in ""Little Dorrit"" reflects the real prison of the 1820s. According to Philpotts, Dickens rarely made mistakes and did not exaggerate; if anything, he downplayed the licentiousness of Marshalsea life, perhaps to protect Victorian sensibilities. Like the first Marshalsea, the second was notoriously cramped. In 1827, 414 out of its 630 debtors were there for debts under £20; 1,890 people in Southwark were imprisoned that year for a"
"The Great Night The Great Night is a 2011 novel by American author Chris Adrian. Billed as a retelling of William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the novel details the interaction on one night between the faerie kingdom about to be destroyed and three mortals heartbroken over lost relationships. Henry Blork, Molly and Will enter Buena Vista Park in San Francisco on the way to a party at a house nearby. Each is forlorn over the loss of a relationship: Henry's obsessive–compulsive disorder had driven away his boyfriend Bobby; Will had lost his girlfriend Carolina because of his infidelity; and"
"money without marriage. The second novel has two women in degradation. One is drugged and raped (in a precursor to the scene in Samuel Richardson's ""Clarissa""), and the other has her suitor drugged and raped and is forced to work as servant to the first. The novels are highly sensational and competently written, but neither was a significant advance in the development of the English novel. Mary Hearne Mary Hearne (? ""fl."" 1718) is the name of a novelist whose works were published by Edmund Curll. It is possible, even likely, that the name does not accurately represent the author,"
"night' appears in Shakespeare's ""Antony and Cleopatra"": ""Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me / All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more / Let's mock the midnight bell"". Although no murder occurs in ""Gaudy Night"", it includes a great deal of suspense and psychological thrills. The narrative is interwoven with a love story and an examination of women's struggles to enlarge their roles and achieve some independence within the social climate of 1930s England, and the novel has been described as ""the first feminist mystery novel"". Jacques Barzun: """"Gaudy Night"" is a remarkable achievement. Harriet Vane"
"there were precursors in the 18th century, like ""Amelia"" by Henry Fielding (1751), ""Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams"" (1794) by William Godwin, ""The Adventures of Hugh Trevor"" (1794–1797) by Thomas Holcroft, and ""Nature and Art"" (1796) by Elizabeth Inchbald. However, whereas Inchbald laid responsibility for social problems with the depravity and corruption of individuals, Godwin, in ""Caleb Williams"", saw society's corruption as insurmountable. In England during the 1830s and 1840s the social novel ""arose out of the social and political upheavals which followed the Reform Act of 1832"". This was in many ways a reaction"
"living at Devonshire Terrace, Marylebone, to care for the young family they had left behind. She remained with them as housekeeper, organiser, adviser, and friend until Dickens's death in 1870. Dickens modeled the character of Agnes Wickfield after Georgina and Mary. He described his impressions in a travelogue, ""American Notes for General Circulation"". Dickens includes in ""Notes"" a powerful condemnation of slavery, which he had attacked as early as ""The Pickwick Papers"", correlating the emancipation of the poor in England with the abolition of slavery abroad citing newspaper accounts of runaway slaves disfigured by their masters. In spite of the"