<P> Jennifer Worth RN RM (25 September 1935--31 May 2011) was a British nurse and musician . She wrote a best - selling trilogy of memoirs about her work as a 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 . A television series, Call the Midwife, based on her books, began broadcasting on BBC One on 15 January 2012 . </P> <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>

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