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Edyth Ellerbeck Read
A gifted early 20th-century writer from Salt Lake City, she wrote fiction, poetry, and dramatic pieces, and helped create the spirited world of Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party. Her life was brief, but it touched literature and Utah public life in memorable ways.
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Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
by Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs, Edyth Ellerbeck Read
About the author
Born in Salt Lake City in 1876, Edyth Ellerbeck Read studied at the University of Utah and later earned an A.B. in English from Stanford in 1902. She also spent time studying music in New York, showing the wide range of her interests.
She became known for magazine writing that included fiction, poetry, and dramatic work. Her best-known book was Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party (1912), a young adult novel co-authored with Caroline Elliott Jacobs.
Read was also active in civic life. In 1912, she was elected to the Utah House of Representatives as one of four women from Salt Lake City chosen for the lower house, but she died in January 1913 before she could serve.