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Edith Pargeter attended Dawley Church of England School from where, later, she won a ‘free place’ to Coalbrookdale High School for Girls. It was here that her lifelong passion for writing took root.
Jul 8, 2008 · She was educated at Dawley Church of England School and the old Coalbrookdale High School for Girls.
Edith qualified in the written examinations for a free place to attend Coalbrookdale High School for Girls in 1924.It was at Coalbrookdale that her interest in composition, art and Latin was encouraged and became her lifetime passion. Early Employment and the Second World War
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.
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Edith Mary Pargeter, better known as Ellis Peters, was born in Horsehay, Shropshire, in 1913. She attended the Dawley Church of England School and Coalbrookdale High School for Girls, and never...
She later moved with her parents to Dawley where she was educated at Dawley Church of England School and the old Coalbrookdale High School for Girls.[2][3] She had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books (both fiction and non-fiction) are set in Wales and its borderlands, or have Welsh protagonists.
Peter’s father was a clerk at the local Horsehay Company ironworks. She later moved with her parents to Dawley where she was educated at Dawley Church of England School and the old Coalbrookdale High School for Girls.
