<P> Worth, born Jennifer Lee in Clacton - on - Sea, Essex, was raised in Amersham, Buckinghamshire . After leaving school at the age of 15 she learned shorthand and typing and became the secretary to the head of Dr Challoner's Grammar School . She then trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and moved to London to receive training to become a midwife . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> She married the artist Philip Worth in 1963, and they had two daughters . (Philip Worth appears as a character in the 2014 Christmas Special portrayed by Ronald Pickup; at the end of the third series episode 8 of the TV series Call the Midwife, Phillip Worth was portrayed by Steven Ashfield, according to IMDb "Phillip Worth".) Worth retired from nursing in 1973 to pursue her musical interests . </P> <P> In 1974, she was appointed a licentiate of the London College of Music, where she taught piano and singing . She obtained a fellowship in 1984 . She performed as a soloist and with choirs throughout Britain and Europe . She later began writing, and her first volume of memoirs, Call the Midwife, was published in 2002 . The book became a best - seller when it was reissued in 2007 . Shadows of the Workhouse (2005; reissued 2008) and Farewell to the East End (2009) also became best - sellers . The trilogy sold almost a million copies in the UK alone . In a fourth volume of memoirs In the Midst of Life, published in 2010, Worth reflects on her later experiences caring for the terminally ill . </P>

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