While Worth continues her tour of education with Shadows of the Workhouse, it simply took a different turn than most readers would expect. It was one of those books that really made you want to go out there and read more about the field of midwifery. The first Call the Midwife book was great-it educated, titillated and intrigued. In the first book, Worth dabbled with narrative by going in and out of stories she was a part of-however these borrowed stories only added to the authenticity of Worth’s agenda, which was to bring awareness to midwifery and to show what heroic and selfless acts were done by the nuns and midwives living in the East End after WWII. 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.
Worth's book made me cry in a railway carriage.Call the Midwife: Shadows of the WorkhouseĪ Continued Conversation About Memoir, Voice, and Authenticity Worth is indeed a natural storyteller and her detailed account of being a midwife in London's East End is gripping, moving and convincing from beginning to end.a powerful evocation of a long-gone world. - David Kynaston in Literary Review Trixie Franklin, a fun-loving young nurse.Cynthia Miller, a kind and thoughtful young nurse.Chummy Browne (Camilla Fortescue-Cholmeley-Browne), a very tall, upper-class young nurse.Worth based her book on the lives of such people, many of whom she met through her work as a midwife in London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s. Some as young adult, others who had been born there or sent as orphans. Subsequently, until the end of the 20th century and early years of the 21st, there were still many people who had lasting memories of life in the workhouses. It was not until the 1948 National Assistance Act that the last traces of the Poor Law disappeared, and with them the workhouses. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 almost 100,000 people were accommodated in former workhouses, including 5000 children. Renamed Public Assistance Institutions, they continued under the control of county councils. Setting Īlthough Britain's workhouses were officially abolished in 1930, many did not close their doors until much later.
It formed the basis for the second series of the television drama Call the Midwife. Shadows of the Workhouse is a 2005 book by British author Jennifer Worth (1935-2011).
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