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Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

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First published: 2002
Pages: 419

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Jennifer Worth recalls her work as a midwife in London's East End during the 1950s. Beginning with Nonnatus House and the neighborhoods it served, she describes crowded homes, closely connected families and streets still marked by wartime damage. The memoir places childbirth and nursing within the everyday conditions of a Docklands community she knew through her work.

About the author

Jennifer Worth

An article in the journal Midwives in January 1998 complained that midwifery had produced almost no literature of its own, nothing to match what James Herriot had done for veterinary work. Its author, Terri Coates, heard back from a retired musician in her sixties who had once ridden a bicycle around Poplar with a delivery bag.