Call the Midwife

Farewell to the East End

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Jennifer Worth: Call the Midwife (2013, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published Nov. 5, 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-227007-8
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A memoir of the author's experiences as a nurse and certified midwife in 1950's London. She worked in the poor sections of the Easy End, and lived in a convent with nuns and other lay nurse/midwives. The nuns belonged to an Anglican order which was dedicated to bringing modern nursing/midwifery skills to the poor.

11 editions

Subjects

  • Midwives
  • Childbirth
  • London (england), history
  • London (england), social conditions
  • London (england), biography
  • Women, biography