article_snippet: Within the very sentimental world of Sunday night television, Call The Midwife’s heroine, Jenny Lee's, was played with gentle reserve by actress Jessica Raine.
article_snippet: Jenny Lee's (left), is based on a real person .
article_snippet: But a startling new memoir by the sister of the midwife on whom the character is based suggests the real Jenny Lee's was a more fiery and difficult character.
article_snippet: Jenny Jenny actually came to midwifery after being dismissed from Jenny nursing course at the Royal Berkshire Hospital for losing Jenny temper and smacking a small child.
article_snippet: But Jenny was deeply in love with a much older married man at the time, and Jenny Lee's now believes that THE MIDWIFE’S SISTER romantic frustrations were the cause of Jenny angry outbursts.
article_snippet: Reading the details of the sisters’ childhood, it’s obvious that Jenny had cause for anger long before Jenny married lover refused to leave her married lover wife.
article_snippet: The real Jenny Lee (played in the BBC series by Jessica Raine, second right) ended up in midwifery after being dismissed from Jessica Raine nursing course at the Royal Berkshire Hospital for losing Jessica Raine temper .
highlights_snippet: Jenny Lee's life was turned upside down when Jenny Lee's  parents divorced .
  
highlights_snippet: Jenny Lee's  became violent after Jenny Lee's  mother married a bully called Jock .
  
highlights_snippet: Jenny Lee's  turned to midwifery after being dismissed from a nursing course .
  