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Jennifer Worth

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born
September 25, 1935 in Clacton-on-Sea, The United Kingdom

died
May 31, 2011

gender
female

genre
Biographies & Memoirs


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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 moved to London to receive training to become a midwife.

Lee was hired as a staff nurse at the London Hospital in Whitechapel in the early 1950s. With the Sisters of St John the Divine, an Anglican community of nuns, she worked to aid the poor. She was then a ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Bloomsbury, and later at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 1,891 ratings · 426 reviews · 10 distinct works
The Midwife: A Memoir of Bi...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,346 ratings — published 2002 — 17 editions
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Shadows Of The Workhouse
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
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Farewell To The East End ...
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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In The Midst Of Life
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Tales from a Midwife
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4.56 of 5 stars 4.56 avg rating — 48 ratings — 2 editions
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The Midwife Trilogy
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010
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Emergency Room
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Eczema and food allergy: th...
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Series by Jennifer Worth

The Midwife: A Memoir of Bi... Shadows Of The Workhouse Farewell To The East End ...
The Midwife Trilogy (3 books)
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Quotes by Jennifer Worth

“Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.”
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