Jennifer Worth

Jennifer Worth (1935-2011) was an English author and nurse. She is the author of the Midwife Trilogy. After working as a secretary at Dr. Challoner’s Grammar School in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, Jennifer trained as a nurse and began working as a midwife in London. She worked as a staff nurse in Whitechapel and as a ward sister in Bloomsbury and Hampstead. Worth wrote her memoirs of her time as a midwife, which became the Midwife Trilogy and were adapted into a TV series entitled Call the Midwife on BBC One. Worth passed away in 2011 from esophageal cancer.