This blog was created to delve into the cultural underpinnings of the umbrella, but it has not held its course. Now, we steer back and, in arbitrary fashion, reorient ourselves by going after Charles Dickens.
Let us start with Mrs. Gamp. Here a Dickens character has lent her own name to the English (British) language, as an umbrella all by herself. Arising out of
Martin Chuzzlewit
, Mrs. Gamp (Sairey Gamp to her friends) gave nursing a black eye, but she was never without her battered black umbrella. "...Mrs Gamp's umbrella, which as something of great price and rarity, was displayed with particular ostentation,...."
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