1. Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM was a British memoirist.
15 Facts About Jennifer Worth
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Jennifer Worth wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and 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.
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Jennifer Worth had a younger sister, Christine, and two younger paternal half-sisters.
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Jennifer Worth was educated at the independent Bournemouh School for girls.
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Jennifer Worth then trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, in Reading, and moved to London to receive training to become a midwife.
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Jennifer Worth was then a ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Bloomsbury.
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Jennifer Worth left midwifery to work in palliative care at the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead.
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Jennifer Worth married the artist Philip Worth in 1963, and they had two daughters.
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Jennifer Worth left nursing in 1973 to pursue her musical interests.
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Jennifer Worth performed as a soloist and with choirs throughout the UK and Europe.
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In 2007 Jennifer Worth was honored with the Royal Red Cross for her services in healthcare.
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Jennifer Worth was highly critical of Mike Leigh's 2004 film Vera Drake, for depicting the consequences of illegal abortions unrealistically.
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Jennifer Worth argued that the method shown in the film, far from being fairly quick and painless, was in fact almost invariably fatal for the woman.
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Jennifer Worth died on 31 May 2011, having been diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus earlier in the year.
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Jennifer Worth's ashes were scattered at sea in accordance to her wishes.