Editing Stepney (section)

==In popular culture==
{{More citations needed section|date=March 2025}}
In her 2002 memoir [[Call the Midwife (book)|''Call the Midwife'']], [[Jennifer Worth]] gives an account of 1950s Stepney, describing poverty, condemned buildings, filth, and rampant prostitution.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Creaser|first=Miriam|date=2013-12-01|title=Call the midwife: a true story of the East End in the 1950s|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698036.2013.863482|journal=Infant Observation|volume=16|issue=3|pages=286–289|doi=10.1080/13698036.2013.863482|issn=1369-8036|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Worth|first=Jennifer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHI7F1cF8z8C|title=Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times|date=2012-08-29|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-1-101-61440-2|language=en}}</ref>

In the 1965 Rolling Stones song [[Play with Fire (Rolling Stones song)|Play with Fire]], it is said an heiress whose wealth has been carried off by her husband "gets her kicks in Stepney, not in [[Knightsbridge]] anymore."

Elton John refers to Stepney in the song "Bitter Fingers" which was written by Elton and Bernie Taupin.

Folk noir duo [[Ruby Throat]] released a song called "Forget Me Nots of Stepney" on their 2012 album ''O' Doubt O' Stars''.

Mentioned in [[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]] "Hand made in Italy, hand stolen in Stepney"