Eva L. Ogden Lambert (February 17, 1853 – September 8, 1919) was an American writer and educator. Most of her published work was poetry for young readers, and texts for use in recitation.
Eva L. Ogden | |
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Born | February 17, 1853 New Canaan, Connecticut, U.S. |
Died | September 8, 1919 (aged 66) Goshen, New York, U.S. |
Other names | Eva L. Lambert |
Occupation(s) | Poet, educator |
Biography
editOgden was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, the daughter of Sereno Edward Ogden and Sophia Phebe Botsford Ogden.[1] In 1886, Ogden married educator David Samuel Rogers Lambert,[2] and lived with him in the David Lambert House in Wilton.[1] Together they ran the Wilton Academy, a boys' school, in the historic house.[3]
Ogden's husband died in 1897; he was shot in their home, by burglars who also attacked her.[4][5] One of the convicted killers was a former student at the Wilton Academy.[2] In 1908, she gave a 25-pound fragment of an 18th-century statue of King George II to the Wilton, Connecticut, town clerk, Henry Chichester. She also gave her brother a 20-pound piece of the statue; that piece was donated to the Connecticut State Library in 1960.[6]
Ogden died in 1919, at the age of 66, in Goshen, New York. Her grave is with her husband's, in Connecticut. The Lamberts had two children, David and Samuel; both sons died in infancy, but are mentioned by name on the couple's joint gravestone.
Publications
editOgden's poems were published in magazines including St. Nicholas,[7][8] Current Literature,[9] The Youth's Companion,[10] and Puck's Library.[11] They were often anthologized, especially "The Sea" (1881), and recommended as good texts for recitation.[12][13][14] "The Cold Storage Baby" (1902) is a science fiction story by Ogden[15] about a living baby preserved for decades in a glass box.[16]
All of the titles below are poems, unless otherwise noted.
- "The Miller of Dee" (1880)[7][17]
- "Proud Prince Cham" (1881)[18]
- "The Sea" (1881)[12]
- "The Quest" (1882)
- "The Maid of Honor"(1882)[8]
- "His Way" (1888)[13][19]
- "A Christmas Legend" (1889)[20]
- "Harder" (1893)[9]
- "If" (1894)[10]
- "In Lilac Time" (1896)[11]
- "The Day After the Betrothal" (1899)[21]
- "Mistress Sherwood's Victory" (1901, story)[14]
- "The Cold Storage Baby" (1902, story)[15][16]
- "Dame Quigley's Glass" (1903)
- "Mary's Meadowing" (1904)[22]
- "A Night Before Christmas" (1907)
- "My World" (1907)
- "The Legend of Piddinghoe" (1909)[23]
References
edit- ^ a b Selleck, Charles Melbourne (1896). Norwalk. The author. p. 172.
- ^ a b Hearn, Daniel Allen (2015-08-13). Legal Executions in New England: A Comprehensive Reference, 1623-1960. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0853-2.
- ^ "Lambert Corner". Wilton Historical Society. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
- ^ "Still Another Murder; Masked Villains Shoot a Man Whose House They Were Pillaging". Fitchburg Sentinel. 1897-12-18. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Shot by Robbers; Retired Schoolmaster Fatally Wounded and His Wife, Eva L. Ogden, Assaulted". The Buffalo Commercial. 1897-12-18. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "King George's Head, Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution". Retrieved 2024-07-13.
- ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. "The Miller of Dee" St. Nicholas 8(2)(December 1880): 174.
- ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. "Maid of Honor" St. Nicholas 9(8)(June 1882): 602-606.
- ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. "Harder" Current Literature 13(1)(May 1893): 120.
- ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. (October 9, 1894). "If". The Youth's Companion. 57 (41): 377.
- ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. "In Lilac Time" Puck's Library (102)(1896): 134.
- ^ a b Pertwee, Ernest Guy (1912). The Reciter's Second Treasury of Verse, Serious and Humorous. G. Routledge & Sons. p. 626.
- ^ a b Warner, Charles Dudley; Mabie, Hamilton Wright; Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert; Warner, George H. (1902). Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern. J. A. Hill.
- ^ a b New Pieces that Will Take Prizes in Speaking Contests. Hinds and Noble. 1901. pp. 240–248.
- ^ a b "Pre-1950 Utopias and Science Fiction by WomenAn Annotated Reading List of Online Editions of Speculative Fiction". Digital Library, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
- ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. (1926-02-26). "The Cold Storage Baby". The Okarche Times. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Answer to Request Furnished by Reader". The Atlanta Journal. 1900-02-20. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Ogden, Eva L. (August 1881). "Proud Prince Cham". St. Nicholas. 8 (10): 813.
- ^ Ogden, Eva L. (1888-10-07). "His Way". The Sunday Leader. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Ogden, Eva L. (1889-12-24). "A Christmas Legend". Sun-Journal. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Lambert, Eva L. Ogden (June 8, 1899). "The Day After the Betrothal". Unity. 43: 261.
- ^ Ogden, Eva L. "Mary's Meadowing" St. Nicholas 31(8)(June 1904): 682-683.
- ^ "St. Nicholas". The Omaha Daily News. 1909-11-28. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.