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Sisters of the East End: The True History, Midwifery, and Legacy of London’s Nursing Nuns

"The "sisters of the East End" refers primarily to the Anglican nursing nuns of the Community of St. John the Divine alongside allied religious sisterhoods who delivered maternal and community healthcare across London’s impoverished docklands from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, immortalized globally in Jennifer Worth’s memoirs and the television drama Call the Midwife. Operating from austere convents and mission houses in districts like Poplar, Stepney, and Whitechapel, these women provided advanced clinical care, spiritual support, and public health advocacy long before the modern welfare state existed. Their integration of reli..."

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