

Worth retired from nursing in 1973 to pursue her musical interests. She married the artist Philip Worth in 1963, and they had two daughters. She was then a ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Bloomsbury, and later at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead. With the Sisters of St John the Divine, an Anglican community of nuns, she worked to aid the poor. Lee was hired as a staff nurse at the London Hospital in Whitechapel in the early 1950s. She then trained as a nurse at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and moved to London to receive training to become a midwife. After leaving school at the age of 14, she learned shorthand and typing and became the secretary to the head of Dr Challoner's Grammar School. Worth, born Jennifer Lee while her parents were on holiday in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, was raised in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
