Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London (Call The Midwife)

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This book centers on the workhouse, a Victorian solution to the poor and homeless situation that crept up soon after the Industrial Revolution. Once again, I'm astounded that this is a time within living memory and not some distant century; my mother would have been a young girl then.

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

Nurse Lee shines through as a woman of her times, both a young rebel and accepting of post-war London realities. As head of the coalition government Lloyd George began to reap the rewards, which he perhaps felt were due to the man who had won the war for his country. A seering expose of poverty nd what the working class of Britain has been though in the last century but also relieved by humour and compassion A compelling and important book we all need to read.Television dramas cannot compare with the suffering and terrible grief occurring in the East End of London for close to two hundred years. I disagree wholly with the notion that there is no point in staying with an unconscious patient because he or she does not know you are there. Bibliophiles who enjoyed The Midwife Trilogy penned by Jennifer Worth also greatly enjoyed the following suchlike books. When he asked to be shown round the district's nursing and midwifery practices, the sister-in-charge, a woman of infinite wisdom, allotted Jane the task.

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I missed reading about the various cases and people she came across, there just wasn't enough of Jenny being a midwife and interacting with patients. But before we condemn the workhouses as an example of 19th-century exploitation and hypocrisy we must remember that the mores of the time were completely different from the standards of today. Sir, I have the honour to inform you that I do not consider your government has any right to detain me as a prisoner. Worth is indeed a natural storyteller and her detailed account of being a midwife in London's East End is gripping, moving and convincing from beginning to end. Knowing nothing of her mother, Jane latched on to a workhouse rumour that her father was a high-class gentleman who worked in Parliament or at the Bar.Those unable to work due to age or disability were allowed relief, only if no close family member could support them. When she reached to take down her coat, her hands twitched so convulsively that the Reverend had to do it for her. There were stories that horrified me and angered me… stories that made me cry and stories that made me grateful that despite the pervasive cynicism I feel toward the world and the people in it, that there are kind, compassionate and non-judgmental souls who make their life's work about caring for the poor and the sick and the people whom the rest of the world has cast aside.