Edith Pargeter

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM , also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. She is well known for her medievaldetective series The Cadfael Chronicles.

Pargeter was born in the village of Horsehay . Her father was a clerk at a local ironworks. She was educated at Dawley Church of England School and the old Coalbrookdale High School for Girls. She had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books are set in Wales and its borderlands, or have Welsh protagonists.

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