Bibliograph

Shadows of the workhouse, Jennifer Worth

Type

Label

Shadows of the workhouse, Jennifer Worth

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 294)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shadows of the workhouse

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

824821929

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Worth

Series statement

Call the midwife trilogy, 2

Summary

When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century. Orphaned brother and sister Peggy and Frank lived in the workhouse until Frank got free and returned to rescue his sister. Bubbly Jane's spirit was broken by the cruelty of the workhouse master until she found kindness and romance years later at Nonnatus House. Mr. Collett, a Boer War veteran, lost his family in the two world wars and died in the workhouse. Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humor of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Call the midwife, shadows of the workhouse

Classification