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28 SEPTEMBER 1913

   Posted by: Dorothea Preis   in Events in History

Birth of Edith Pargeter, author of historical and detective fiction.

Under the pseudonym of Ellis Peters, she wrote the Inspector Felse nolvels (from 1951) and the Brother Cadfael series (since 1977).  Under her own name she published the Heaven Tree trilogy of novels in the early 1960s. She also translated Czech poetry and prose, which were published in sixteen volumes.  She produced nearly eighty books as well as many short stories and articles.

Edith Pargeter died on 14 October 1995, while working on another Cadfael novel.

SourceODNB – Kate Fullbrook, ‘Pargeter, Edith Mary [Ellis Peters] (1913–1995)’

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