Top 10 Umbrella Moments

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Umbrellas turn up throughout our social history, from Charles Dickens' depiction of an umbrella-weilding Mrs Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit to the Russian spy Georgi Markov who was killed by the poisoned tip of an umbrella in 1978 on Waterloo Bridge. Rene Magritte's Golconda (1953), featuring men carrying umbrellas as they drift down through the sky, is a symbolic benchmark for surrealism, while Marilyn Monroe was f...