Edith Pargeter (September 28, 1913 to October 14, 1995) is the real name behind the mystery writer Ellis Peters, whose 12th century detective stories are widely popular. For instance the BBC adapted her Brother Cadfael mysteries for a television series starring Derek Jacobi.
Some of her stories feature cats. The Trinity Cat (2006, may be a reprint date) is the leading story in a collection of that name, and her cat stories appear in other collections also: More Mystery Cats (1993) edited by Lilian Jackson Braun is just one example.
Pargeter also won a reputation and awards for her work translating Czechoslovakian literature. The Terezín Requiem (1963), was a Joseph Bor story of a Verdi concert at Auschwitz.. In 1949, The Coast of Bohemia, her account of her travels there, had appeared.
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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