Title:
Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times
Series:
Series Number:
1.
Summary:
Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying.
General Note:
Previously published as: The Midwife (Penguin Books, 2009).
"First published in Great Britain as Call the midwife by Merton Books 2002"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Call the midwife -- Nonnatus House -- Morning visits -- Chummy -- Molly -- The bicycle -- Antenatal clinic -- Rickets -- Eclampsia -- Fred -- A Christmas baby -- A breech delivery -- Jimmy -- Len & Concita Warren -- Sister Monica Joan -- Mary -- Zakir -- Cable Street -- Cafe life -- Flight -- sister Evangelina -- Mrs. Jenkins -- Rosie -- The workhouse -- The bottom dropped out of pigs -- Of mixed descent I -- Of mixed descent II -- Of mixed descent III -- The luncheon party -- Smog -- The flying squad -- A premature baby -- Old, old age -- In the beginning.
Physical Description:
340 pages ; 21 cm
Personal Subject:
Author(s):
Publisher:
Penguin Books,
Publication Date:
2012
2009
ISBN:
9780143123255
9780143116233
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2012]
Call Number:
926 WORTH