BBC WORLDWIDE and PBS Sign Deal to Bring Critically Acclaimed Show to the US". PBS. 15 May 2012 . Retrieved 18 July 2012. Ariel – Call the Midwife to return for a fourth series". Ariel. Archived from the original on 26 October 2018 . Retrieved 7 December 2015. Lee was hired as a staff nurse at the London Hospital in Whitechapel in the early 1950s. With the Sisters of St John the Divine, an Anglican community of nuns, she worked to aid the poor. She was then a ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Bloomsbury, and later at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead. BBC announces two further series of award-winning drama Call The Midwife". BBC Media Centre. 13 April 2021 . Retrieved 13 April 2021.

Having originally been smitten with this wonderful British TV series, I am now head over heels in love with the book. It's the first of a trilogy which pleases me to no end. I must get my book club to read this. It did get a bit preachy and religious towards the very end, but I should have expected that since Jenny lived in a convent with a bunch of nuns.In God's mercy, I met an allergy specialist, a man of eighty-four, who took pity on me and guided me through an elimination diet. Within three months the eczema had cleared. While St. Raymond Nonnatus, for whom the show's house is named, is indeed the saint of midwives and pregnant women, the building the midwives of Poplar call home doesn't actually exist.

Worth, Jennifer (2007). Eczema and Food Allergy: The Hidden Cause?: My Story. Merton Books. ISBN 978-1872560182. She had a relationship with Jimmy's friend, Alec Jesmond before he died after falling through an old staircase at his workplace. My mother had planted this seed when we were children. Hearing this made me feel unbearably sad...” (Elsie would say “Jennifer’s the clever one, Chris is the pretty one”.) Shadows of the Workhouse (Second book in the Midwife trilogy) Worth, Jennifer (2008). Shadows of the Workhouse. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0297853268. (2005)

A second series of eight episodes aired in the UK in early 2013. [30] [31] The series achieved a consolidated series average of 10.47 million viewers. [32] A third eight-part series aired in the UK from January 2014, [33] with a consolidated average of 10.53 million. [32]

Call the Midwife is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth (known in the show as Jenny Lee), featuring narration – and an on-screen appearance in the 2014 Christmas Special – by Vanessa Redgrave as an older Jenny. She later became a Ward Sister at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Bloomsbury, and finally at Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead. Worth retired from nursing in 1973 to focus on music. Life as a musician Farewell to the East End (Jennifer Worth, RN RM, published in 2009 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and then Phoenix/Orion).

Yet in all probability it will be as a major historical document that her trilogy enjoys its most enduring reputation. By the late 1950s slum clearance and comprehensive redevelopment were starting to transform large parts (including Poplar) of the East End, far more effectively than the Luftwaffe had ever managed; and by the end of the 1960s they were almost wholly unrecognisable from the intimate, squalid, overcrowded, intensely human environment that had sprung up during the 19th century and then stayed largely unchanged. A second series was immediately commissioned after the opening episode attracted an audience of nearly 10 million viewers. The second episode increased its audience to 10.47 million, while the third continued the climb to 10.66. Episode four's rating reached 10.89 million. Jennifer Worth's third book about her years serving as a midwife in London's East End in the 1950s was much darker than the first two. It was well-written and the stories were all compelling, but it covered some serious stuff, including babies who died during delivery, botched abortions, children killed by tuberculosis, a father who prostituted his daughter on a ship, and the Contagious Diseases Acts.