Bibliograph

The midwife, a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times, by Jennifer Worth ; clinical editor Terri Coates

Type

Label

The midwife, a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times, by Jennifer Worth ; clinical editor Terri Coates

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The midwife

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

319248380

Responsibility statement

by Jennifer Worth ; clinical editor Terri Coates

Sub title

a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times

Summary

At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies - from the plucky, warmhearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children, to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history

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