author
Edyth Ellerbeck Read
Best remembered as a co-author in the popular Blue Bonnet books, this early 20th-century writer helped bring lively ranch adventures to young readers. Her surviving record is slim, which gives her work an added sense of literary mystery.
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Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
by Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs, Edyth Ellerbeck Read
About the author
Edyth Ellerbeck Read is chiefly known today for her collaboration with Caroline Elliott Jacobs on Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party, a 1912 children's novel in the Blue Bonnet series. Library and public-domain catalog records consistently connect her name with that book, and modern book databases also credit her with Blue Bonnet in Boston.
Very little firmly documented biographical information about her is easy to confirm from widely available sources. An obituary record indicates that an Edyth Ellerbeck Read died in Salt Lake City in 1913, but because the easily accessible evidence is limited, it is safest to keep the focus on the books themselves rather than overstate details about her life.
What remains clear is her place in the long afterlife of classic girls' fiction: her work has been preserved by projects such as Project Gutenberg and library catalogs, allowing new generations of readers to discover the spirited world of Blue Bonnet.