Cover of Shadows of the workhouse

Book 2009

Shadows of the workhouse

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Publisher
Phoenix
Language
English
Published
2009
  • Poor
  • Social life and customs
  • Poverty
  • Midwives
  • Childbirth
  • Biography
  • History
  • London (england), biography

In the follow up to her bestselling Call the Midwide, Jennifer Worth tells the true stories of the people she met. There's Peggy and Frank, who were separated in the workhouse when their parents died. Until Frank's strength and determination enabled him to make a home for his sister. Jane was a bright, lively child, whose spirit was broken by cruelty, until she found kindness and love later in life. Then there is the matchmaking nun, Sister Julienne, and Sister Monica Joan, who ends up in the High Court ...