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Cor... the midwife! An affair with a married man at 16? Pass the gas and air: It's the wild past of Call The Midwife's creator, by her own family
By JO KNOWSLEY
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It will come as a surprise to her millions of fans that Jennifer Worth was seldom one to follow the rules
She is the voice of a half-forgotten world, an author whose nostalgic accounts of childbirth, life and death in London’s East End during the 1950s have entranced millions of television viewers.
Call The Midwife is a heart-warming mixture of gritty poverty and uplifting storylines – a world where people know their place, where uniformed matrons can cycle safely through dimly-lit slums, and where, for the midwives at least, regulations must be obeyed.
So it will come as a surprise to her millions of fans that Jennifer Worth, whose bestselling books inspired the series, was seldom one to follow the rules herself.
Indeed Jennifer was distinctly unconventional, a girl who disregarded scho
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Jennifer Worth
Born
in Clacton-on-Sea, The United KingdomSeptember 25, 1935
Died
May 31, 2011
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.
She married the artist PhilWorth, born Jennifer Lee while her parents were on holiday in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex,
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Jennifer Worth: Call The Midwife author dies at 75
Best-selling author Jennifer Worth, who wrote the popular Call the Midwife trilogy, has died aged 75.
A spokesperson from publishers Weidenfeld & Nicolson said the company was "deeply saddened" to announce the writer's death after a short illness.
Worth's books were based on her own experiences of being a nurse in the east end of 1950s London.
Each book sold almost a million copies and spawned a new publishing sub-genre of nostalgic true life stories.
Worth's midwifery tales are currently being adapted for a BBC TV series with Cranford screenwriter Heidi Thomas working on the script.
Born in Clacton-on-Sea in 1935, she grew up in the Buckinghamshire town of Amersham.
Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and worked as a midwife, ward sister and night sister from 1953 until 1973.
She left nursing to study music and gained the Licentiate of the London College of Mu