![]() ![]() She worked in an administrative role as a teleprinter operator at Devonport, and then at the Western Approaches Headquarters at Derby House, Liverpool. During World War II, she enlisted in the Women's Royal Naval Service (the "Wrens") in 1940. 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.Īfter leaving school she worked as a temporary labour exchange clerk, then as assistant at a chemists' shop in Dawley, during which time her first novel, Hortensius, Friend of Nero, was published in 1936. 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. ![]() Her father was a clerk at the local Horsehay Company ironworks. Pargeter was born in the village of Horsehay ( Shropshire, England), daughter of Edmund Valentine Pargeter (known as Ted) and his wife Edith nee Hordley. ![]()
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