Jennifer Worth SRN SCM (nee Lee) was a British nurse and musician.
Her husband was Philip Worth, who she married in 1963. They had two daughters, Suzannah and Juliette.
She left school at the age of 14, and after taking a course in shorthand and typing she became secretary to the headmaster of Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham.
She then trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, subsequently moving to London to train as a midwife.
After working in Poplar, Jennifer became a staff nurse at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, then ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Euston and later at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead.
She wrote a best-selling trilogy of memoirs about her work as a midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s:
Call The Midwife,
Shadows of the Workhouse
and
Farewell to The East End.
Jennifer always loved music, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to devote herself to her passion. She gained the Licentiate of the London College of Music in 1974 and was awarded a fellowship 10 years later. She taught piano and singing for about 25 years and sang in choirs across England and Europe
She died on 31 May 2011, aged 75 years, after beening diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus earlier in the year.
A television series, Call the Midwife, based on her books, began broadcasting on the BBC in January 2012.
She is survived by her husband, their daughters, and three grandchildren, Dan, Lydia and Eleanor.
RIP
Her husband was Philip Worth, who she married in 1963. They had two daughters, Suzannah and Juliette.
She left school at the age of 14, and after taking a course in shorthand and typing she became secretary to the headmaster of Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham.
She then trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, subsequently moving to London to train as a midwife.
After working in Poplar, Jennifer became a staff nurse at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, then ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Euston and later at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead.
She wrote a best-selling trilogy of memoirs about her work as a midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s:
Call The Midwife,
Shadows of the Workhouse
and
Farewell to The East End.
Jennifer always loved music, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to devote herself to her passion. She gained the Licentiate of the London College of Music in 1974 and was awarded a fellowship 10 years later. She taught piano and singing for about 25 years and sang in choirs across England and Europe
She died on 31 May 2011, aged 75 years, after beening diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus earlier in the year.
A television series, Call the Midwife, based on her books, began broadcasting on the BBC in January 2012.
She is survived by her husband, their daughters, and three grandchildren, Dan, Lydia and Eleanor.
RIP
Jennifer Worth SRN SCM (nee Lee) was a British nurse and musician.
Her husband was Philip Worth, who she married in 1963. They had two daughters, Suzannah and Juliette.
She left school at the age of 14, and after taking a course in shorthand and typing she became secretary to the headmaster of Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham.
She then trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, subsequently moving to London to train as a midwife.
After working in Poplar, Jennifer became a staff nurse at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, then ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Euston and later at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead.
She wrote a best-selling trilogy of memoirs about her work as a midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s:
Call The Midwife,
Shadows of the Workhouse
and
Farewell to The East End.
Jennifer always loved music, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to devote herself to her passion. She gained the Licentiate of the London College of Music in 1974 and was awarded a fellowship 10 years later. She taught piano and singing for about 25 years and sang in choirs across England and Europe
She died on 31 May 2011, aged 75 years, after beening diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus earlier in the year.
A television series, Call the Midwife, based on her books, began broadcasting on the BBC in January 2012.
She is survived by her husband, their daughters, and three grandchildren, Dan, Lydia and Eleanor.
RIP
Her husband was Philip Worth, who she married in 1963. They had two daughters, Suzannah and Juliette.
She left school at the age of 14, and after taking a course in shorthand and typing she became secretary to the headmaster of Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham.
She then trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, subsequently moving to London to train as a midwife.
After working in Poplar, Jennifer became a staff nurse at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, then ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Euston and later at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead.
She wrote a best-selling trilogy of memoirs about her work as a midwife practising in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s:
Call The Midwife,
Shadows of the Workhouse
and
Farewell to The East End.
Jennifer always loved music, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to devote herself to her passion. She gained the Licentiate of the London College of Music in 1974 and was awarded a fellowship 10 years later. She taught piano and singing for about 25 years and sang in choirs across England and Europe
She died on 31 May 2011, aged 75 years, after beening diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus earlier in the year.
A television series, Call the Midwife, based on her books, began broadcasting on the BBC in January 2012.
She is survived by her husband, their daughters, and three grandchildren, Dan, Lydia and Eleanor.
RIP
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