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Tag: The Book of Halloween

Ruth Edna Kelley: Librarian, Authoress, Badass

October 27, 2014

Who was Ruth Edna Kelley and why am I obsessed with her? Kelley was a twenty-six year-old librarian who literally wrote the book on Halloween. Back in 1919, Kelley wrote The Book of Halloween, which I picked up in a slightly crumbling hardback first edition (!!!) from the Brooklyn Public Library (why and how they […]

TAGS: Lisa Morton, Ruth Edna Kelley, The Book of Halloween, Trick or Treat

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