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Edith Pargeter

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Edith Mary Pargeter (or Ellis Peters, 1913-1995) was an author and translator. Pargeter is best known for her Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series.

Life[]

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Writing style[]

Pargeter's work is largely historical fiction, both with and without a murder mystery twist.

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Notable works[]

  • The Coast of Bohemia - details a voyage to Czechoslovakia.
  • translation of Jan Neruda's Tales of the Little Quarter
  • translation of Alois Jirásek's Legends of Old Bohemia

Novels[]

  • Hortensius, Friend of Nero
  • Iron-Bound
  • The City Lies Four-Square
  • Ordinary People (or People of My Own)
  • She Goes to War
  • The Fair Young Phoenix
  • By Firelight (or By This Strange Fire)
  • Lost Children
  • Most Loving Mere Folly
  • The Rough Magic
  • The Soldier at the Door
  • A Means of Grace
  • The Assize of the Dying
  • A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury (or The Bloody Field)
  • The Marriage of Meggotta

Jim Benison[]

  • The Eighth Champion of Christendom
  • Reluctant Odyssey
  • Warfare Accomplished

The Heaven Tree[]

  • The Heaven Tree
  • The Green Branch
  • The Scarlet Seed

The Brothers of Gwynedd[]

  • Sunrise in the West
  • The Dragon at Noonday
  • The Hounds of Sunset
  • Afterglow and Nightfall

Ellis Peters[]

The Cadfael Chronicles[]

  • A Morbid Taste for Bones - Cadfael's debut novel. Details a pilgrimage to the Welsh village of Gwytherin.
  • One Corpse Too Many - shows Cadfael finding an extra corpse within the victims of a massacre.
  • Monk's Hood
  • Saint Peter's Fair
  • The Leper of Saint Giles
  • The Virgin in the Ice
  • The Sanctuary Sparrow
  • The Devil's Novice
  • Dead Man's Ransom
  • The Pilgrim of Hate
  • An Excellent Mystery
  • The Raven in the Foregate
  • The Rose Rent
  • The Hermit of Eyton Forest
  • The Confession of Brother Haluin - tells of a monk making a deathbed confession but surviving.
  • A Rare Benedictine - collects several stories featuring Cadfael before the events of A Morbid Taste for Bones.
    • A Light on the Road to Woodstock
    • The Price of Light
    • Eye Witness
  • The Heretic's Apprentice
  • The Potter's Field
  • The Summer of the Danes
  • The Holy Thief - tells of the disappearance of "St. Winifred's" bones. Serves as an indirect sequel to A Morbid Taste for Bones.
  • Brother Cadfael's Penance

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Sources[]

  • Wikipedia
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