![]() ![]() There was no law, no lighting, bedbugs and fleas. ![]() "Most people in London at that time didn't know the East End - they pushed it aside. "So many of those great characters have stayed with me," she said on the publication of Call the Midwife. A strong personality, Jennifer was dynamic and determined, and her lively imagination is apparent in the books.Īfter her retirement from nursing, with the East End she had known long gone, she decided to put her reminiscences down in writing, so as to preserve the old ways of life, the people and the poverty. Reissued in 2007 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, it became a bestseller, as did the subsequent volumes Shadows of the Workhouse (2005 reissued 2008) and Farewell to the East End (2009). The first volume, Call the Midwife, was originally published in 2002. 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. ![]()
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