The painting of Ellis Peters, alias Edith Pargeter, is finished. She wrote the series about brother Cadfael, the Benedictine monk in old England who solved mysteries. I have all the books. She came from a working class home, a musical family where the children were encouraged to read from an early age. Edith’s mother was quoted proudly as saying, “She (Edith) was always writing, right from a child”.