‘The Submerged Tenth’ from In Darkest England and the Way Out (William Booth, 1890)
‘The Bitter Cry of Outcast London’, by Andrew Mearns (first published in The Pall Mall Gazette, 1883)
‘A Night in a Workhouse’, by James Greenwood (first published in The Pall Mall Gazette, 1866)
Workhouses of the North, by Peter Higginbotham (Tempus Publications, 1999)
Jennifer Worth trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and was later ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, then the Marie Curie Hospital, also in London. Music had always been her passion, and in 1973 she left nursing in order to study music intensively, teaching piano and singing for about twenty-five years. Jennifer died in May 2011 after a short illness, leaving her husband Philip, two daughters and three grandchildren. Her books have all been bestsellers.
By Jennifer Worth
Eczema and Food Allergy
Call the Midwife
Shadows of the Workhouse
Farewell to the East End
In the Midst of Life
A PHOENIX EBOOK
First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Merton Books
First published in ebook in 2009 by Phoenix, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Copyright © Jennifer Worth 2005
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
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ISBN: 978 0 2978 5609 2
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1 The Midwives of St Raymund Nonnatus is a pseudonym. I have taken the name from St Raymund Nonnatus, the patron saint of midwives, obstetricians, pregnant women, childbirth and newborn babies. He was delivered by Caesarean section (‘non natus’ is the Latin for “not born”) in Catalonia, Spain, in 1204. His mother, not surprisingly, died at his birth. He became a priest and died in 1240.
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