Shadows of the Workhouse, the second in the midwife trilogy by former East End midwife Jennifer Worth, actually has almost nothing in it about midwifery, birth, or even Jennifer Worth. Since the rip-roaring success of my review of Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (What? You haven’t read it? That’s ok, look here), I decided that the best follow-up was to continue on the path Worth set before me and see if my feelings from the first book continued down the line. These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.Call the Midwife: Shadows of the WorkhouseĪ Continued Conversation About Memoir, Voice, and Authenticity She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, visits the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker.
At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within six months of one another and the children were left destitute. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat.
The inspiration for the second series of the BBC's phenomenally popular CALL THE MIDWIFE, starring Miranda Hart.In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered.
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