Shadows of the workhouse / Jennifer Worth.
Series: Call the midwife. 2 | Worth, Jennifer, Call the midwife ; bk. 2.Publication details: New York : Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 294 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780062270047
- 0062270044
- Call the midwife : shadows of the workhouse
- Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011
- Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011
- 1900-1999
- Midwives -- England -- London -- Biography
- Childbirth -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century
- Almshouses -- England -- 20th century
- Poor -- England -- London -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Almshouses
- Biography
- Childbirth
- Economic history
- Midwives
- Poor -- Social conditions
- Social conditions
- Midwives -- London (England) -- Biography
- Poor -- London (England) -- Biography
- Poverty -- London (England)
- East End (London, England) -- Biography -- 20th century
- East End (London, England) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- England
- England -- London
- England -- London -- East End
- East End (London, England) -- Social life and customs
- 618.20092
- 305.569094215
- HV4086.L66 W67 2013
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 618.2 WOR | Midwife Bk.2 | Available | 070204 |
"First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Merton Books"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 294)
Workhouse children -- The trial of Sister Monica Joan -- The old soldier.
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century. Orphaned brother and sister Peggy and Frank lived in the workhouse until Frank got free and returned to rescue his sister. Bubbly Jane's spirit was broken by the cruelty of the workhouse master until she found kindness and romance years later at Nonnatus House. Mr. Collett, a Boer War veteran, lost his family in the two world wars and died in the workhouse. Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humor of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds.