Edyth Ellerbeck Read

Edyth Ellerbeck Read is a little-documented American author whose name is most clearly connected with Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party, a 1912 novel published by The Page Company. Major library and public-domain records list the book under both Caroline Elliott Jacobs and Edyth Ellerbeck Read, confirming her role as a co-author.

Because so little reliable biographical information is readily available, it is hard to sketch much of her life with confidence. What can be said is that her work belongs to the world of early 1900s girls' fiction, especially the popular Blue Bonnet series, with its mix of friendship, school days, travel, and ranch-life adventure.

That small paper trail gives her a quiet kind of literary interest: even with few personal details preserved, her name remains attached to a book that has stayed in circulation through library catalogs, reprints, and Project Gutenberg.