Edith Pargeter





Edith Pargeter

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born
in Horsehay, Shropshire, The United Kingdom
September 29, 1913

died
October 14, 1995

gender
female


About this author

aka Peter Benedict, Jolyon Carr, Ellis Peters (later editions of her work are sometimes published under this pseudonym), and John Redfern

West Midlands Literary Heritage website biography

Novelist. Born September 1913 at Horsehay, Shropshire. Her father was a clerk at a local ironworks. Edith attended Dawley Church of England School and the Coalbrookdale High School for Girls. Through her mother, she grew to love the history and countryside of Shropshire, her home for all of her life.

Before World War II she worked as a chemist's assistant at Dawley. During this time she started writing seriously for publication while gathering useful information on medicines that she would draw upon later when tackling crime stories. Her first published nove...more


Average rating: 4.07 · 3,374 ratings · 251 reviews · 34 distinct works · Similar authors
The Brothers of Gwynedd Qua...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
The Heaven Tree Trilogy
4.46 of 5 stars 4.46 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1960 — 4 editions
A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1972 — 9 editions
The Heaven Tree (Heaven Tre...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1960 — 12 editions
The Green Branch (Heaven Tr...
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1962 — 15 editions
The Scarlet Seed (Heaven Tr...
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1963 — 12 editions
The Marriage of Meggotta
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1979 — 5 editions
Sunrise in the West (Brothe...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions
The Dragon at Noonday (Brot...
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions
The Hounds of Sunset (Broth...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions
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“Well, do as you think best. That's every man's right and duty. But for me, I pledge you now I will not surrender one grain of my rights. What I took, I took and by God, I'll keep it, too. Take her home tomorrow, Archie, and never look back to watch what I do, for you know it before. I would not give him one knigh who had confided himself to me and none other, much less you. Only over my dead body," said Hotspur hardily, eye to eye with the friend he had made under Homildon Hill, "will King Henry ever claim you as his prisoner.”
Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

“A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.”
Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

“This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met, and contended, and killed one another without malice.”
Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

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