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Author:

Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011.

Title:

Call the midwife. Shadows of the workhouse / Jennifer Worth.

Publisher:

Highbridge Co.,

Copyright Date:

p2014

Description:

8 sound discs (10 1/4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Worth, Jennifer,--1935-2011.
Midwives--London--London--Biography.
Childbirth--London--London--History--20th century.
Almshouses--England--20th century.
Poor--London--London--Social conditions--20th century.
East End (London, England)--Biography--20th century.
East End (London, England)--Economic conditions--20th century.
East End (London, England)--Social conditions--20th century.
Audiobooks.

Other Authors:

Barber, Nicola.

Notes:

Title from container. Read by Nicola Barber. Compact discs. Duration: 10:25:00.

Summary:

When 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a 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.

ISBN:

1622313445
9781622313440

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858901791

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

TRPE062 -- Vinton Public Library (Vinton)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)