Like more-recent writers, such as Anne Perry, Elizabeth Peters, and Peter Lovesey, who have followed her lead, Ellis Peters has made the historical mystery novel her own special domain; but unlike these three, with their nineteenth-century settings,...
Ellis Peters, the chosen nom de plume of British novelist Edith Pargeter, is best remembered for bringing to life the world of the middle ages in her popular chronicle of the later life of the likeable Brother Cadfael. A crusader-turned-monk and...
Edith Mary Pargeter, BEM (September 28, 1913 in Horsehay, Shropshire, England –October 14, 1995) was a prolific author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech...
Richard Cohen's Oct. 13 op-ed column, "Dubious Saints," which questioned Pope John Paul II's "intentions" in declaring Edith Stein to be a Catholic saint, goes beyond a legitimate airing of understandable Jewish concerns and into the realm of armchair psychologizing. Certainly, the issues...
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critical Commentary Since many literary critics agree that Ethan Frome is among Edith Wharton's finest and most important works, any major criticism of Mrs. Wharton must necessarily have reference to her famous tale of the New England farmer, Ethan Frome, his...
