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The Midwife Trilogy by Jennifer Worth 3 primary works • 5 total works Three volumes of memoirs from Jennifer Worth's time as a midwife in the East End. See also her fourth memoir, In the Midst of Life, for her post-midwife career. Book 1 The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
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Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM ( née Lee; 25 September 1935 - 31 May 2011) was a British memoirist. She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife (2002), Shadows of the Workhouse (2005) and Farewell to The East End (2009).
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The drama is adapted from the bestselling memoirs of their mother, Jennifer Worth, who died, aged 75, just before the series was filmed last summer. Watching the progress of Jenny Lee (played.
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An unforgettable true story, The Midwife is the basis for the hit PBS drama Call the Midwife At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London-from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty.
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In 1957, Worth became a nurse midwife in the Poplar section of London's poverty-stricken East End. As she later described in her book Shadows of the Workhouse, poor women of the time usually gave birth at home and having 10 or more children "was quite common.". The role of the midwife in that world was a relatively new one.
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Jenny Lee was based on nurse and midwife Jennifer Worth, who recounted her work during the 1950s in London's impoverished East End in a series of memoirs: Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to The East End. A somewhat-naive young nurse from a sheltered upbringing, Jennifer "Jenny" took a job at Nonnatus House.
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Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House.
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Showing 29 distinct works. sort by * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here . Jennifer Worth has 29 books on Goodreads with 248601 ratings. Jennifer Worth's most popular book is The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times.
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Jennifer Worth, who has died of cancer aged 75, was the author of the Call the Midwife trilogy, based on her experiences as a nurse in the East End of London in the 1950s. The first volume,.
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"Jennifer Worth's memories of her years as a midwife were at once hilarious and tremendously moving." -Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits "Worth is indeed a natural storyteller. . . . Her detailed account of being a midwife in London's East End is gripping, moving, and convincing from beginning to end." -Literary Review
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Call the Midwife has been on the BBC since 2012 and was originally based on the books by Jennifer Worth and her time as a midwife in the East End of London during the 1950s. It has since grabbed the attention of global audiences as fans of the show continue to watch the drama unfold and await series 13 of Call the Midwife to start.
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Jennifer Samantha Louise Worth (née Lee) (25 September 1935 - 31 May 2011) is the author upon whose memoirs the television show Call the Midwife are based. The character of Jenny Lee is based on her. Contents 1 Early Life 2 Working in Poplar 3 Later Work 4 Death 5 Bibliography
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Best-selling author Jennifer Worth, who wrote the popular Call the Midwife trilogy, has died aged 75. A spokesperson from publishers Weidenfeld & Nicolson said the company was "deeply.
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Jennifer Worth, born Jennifer Lee, was a British nurse, midwife, ward sister, and memoirist best remembered for her Midwife Trilogy. Born in Essex, England, she was trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, before moving to the English capital where she received further training as a midwife.
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Worth, born Jennifer Lee while her parents were on holiday in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, was raised in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. After leaving school at the age of 14, she learned shorthand and typing and became the secretary to the head of Dr Challoner's Grammar School. She then trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and.
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In real life, Jennifer Worth, whose books inspired Call the Midwife, remained close with Sister Julienne. Kevin Baker "I have lovely memories of Sister Julienne," Worth's daughter Suzannah.