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In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in the Docklands of East London where the aftermath of the war meant many lived in shocking conditions. She worked with the Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine, nurses and midwives whose vocation was to work amongst the poorest of the poor. Despite the official closure of the workhouses in 1930, there was nowhere else for many inmates to go so they changed their names and carried on much as before. In 'Shadows of the Workhouse', Jennifer tells the stories of the men and women she met who began their lives in the workhouse.
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Shadows of the Workhouse, Jennifer Worth
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- Released
- 2012
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jennifer Worth
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1780225113
- ISBN13
- 9781780225111
- Series
- The Midwife Trilogy
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Health & Medicine, Historical Fiction, Family, Women, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Medicine, Children, England, Life, Great Britain, London, Childbirth, 1950s, Nuns, Midwives
- Original title
- Call the midwife
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in the Docklands of East London where the aftermath of the war meant many lived in shocking conditions. She worked with the Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine, nurses and midwives whose vocation was to work amongst the poorest of the poor. Despite the official closure of the workhouses in 1930, there was nowhere else for many inmates to go so they changed their names and carried on much as before. In 'Shadows of the Workhouse', Jennifer tells the stories of the men and women she met who began their lives in the workhouse.