Shadows of the Workhouse (Jennifer Worth, RN RM, first published in 2005 by Merton Books. Republished in 2009 by Phoenix/Orion). Any woman of any age could be subjected to this horrifying treatment. At the time the age of consent was thirteen, so a child of that age could legally be regarded as a woman. The Contagious Diseases Act affected only working-class women, because upper-class women never walked in the streets alone, but would be accompanied or in a carriage. Men of any age or class were exempt from arrest and examination, even if caught in the act of soliciting, because the Act of 1864 was specifically designed for the control of women."

Worth died on 31 May 2011, having been diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus earlier in the year. Another early book that Jennifer Worth published in The Midwife Trilogy is titled Shadows of the Workhouse. This is the second book in the said series. The book has over twenty five editions and the first one was initially published in 2005; just like its precursor, this book is also classified as historical, nonfiction, biography memoir, and autobiography memoir. Working side–by–side among the sisters, Worth soon learns that they, too, possess compelling histories. Sister Monica Joan is a mischievous and slightly dotty octogenarian when Worth meets her at Nonnatus House but in her youth, the sister defied her aristocratic family to become a nun and midwife, eventually delivering thousands of babies in London through the worst bombings of the Blitz. However, it is Sister Evangelina who most surprises Worth. After accompanying the abrupt and seemingly humorless nun on her rounds, Worth discovers that the sister is a war heroine who is beloved by her patients for her scatological tales and ability to emit a fart of Chaucerian proportions. Wise and saintly Sister Julienne is the stability of the convent, and clever Sister Bernadette is the perfect midwife. Sister Monica Joan was meaner than I expected, she was actually kind of a bully to Sister Evangeline. In the tv show she's far more lovable and everything she says and does seems harmless, in this she was horrible.

BBC WORLDWIDE and PBS Sign Deal to Bring Critically Acclaimed Show to the US". PBS. 15 May 2012 . Retrieved 18 July 2012. She had a relationship with Jimmy's friend, Alec Jesmond before he died after falling through an old staircase at his workplace. The second series opened with a record overnight audience of 9.3 million UK viewers, [52] going on to achieve a consolidated series average of 10.47 million viewers. [32] This was almost 2 million above the slot average, and by some distance the most popular UK drama in every week of transmission. [53] When viewing figures from BBC's iPlayer video streaming service and a narrative repeat were included as part of the BBC Live Plus 7 metric, [54] the total number of viewers per week was found to be almost 12 million. [55]

Ich habe die ersten beiden Bücher schon geliebt und habe nichts anderes für den dritten Teil erwartet. „Farewell to the East End“ erzählt weitere Geschichten vom harten Leben im Londoner East End. Etwa von der Familie, deren Kinder bis auf eines alle an Tuberkulose starben, oder den unfassbar ungerechten Prostitutionsgesetzen, die es Gesetzeshütern erlaubten, junge Mädchen mit Methoden auf Geschlechtskrankheiten zu untersuchen, die einer brutalen Vergewaltigung gleichkamen.

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There are also lively stories of Sister Monica Joan, who discovered the joys of taking a cab ride instead of the bus, and we learn about the woman who ran the local pub. The end of the book discusses how the neighborhood changed in the 1960s, and why the midwives and nuns eventually closed their practice.