Alice Elinor Lambert (1886–1981) was an American
romance writer.
Biography
Lambert was born in
Corvallis, Oregon
Corvallis ( ) is a city and the county seat of Benton County in central western Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. As of the 2020 United ...
in 1886. Her father, Charles Edward Lambert, was born in Ireland in 1843. He came to the United States prior to the
Civil War and enlisted to be a
Union Soldier
During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union (American Civil War), Union of the collective U.S. st ...
. After the war, he became a missionary. In 1876, he married Ella Amelia Northrup in Lafayette, Indiana. Her father, Samuel Lathrop, was the first Methodist missionary bishop in Montana. After living and teaching in Indiana, they moved to Salem, Oregon where he was the president of Willamette University. In 1886 he became a Congregational minister in Yaquina City, Oregon. There were six other children in the family with Alice being the middle child. In 1896, they moved to Tacoma, Washington and later to Seattle, Washington.
In 1904, she enjoyed a brief summer romance with Canadian landscape art, landscape painter Tom Thomson. Thomson was quiet, but Lambert would later write, "We knew without words that we loved each other. We had Extrasensory perception, ESP, hardly needing words, and I know he felt the same towards me." Despite this, she laughingly rejected his marriage proposal.
Lambert later became a writer; in her 1934 self-published novel, ''Woman Are Like That'', she describes a young girl who refuses an artist's proposal and later regrets her decision. Specifically, the main character, Miss Juliet Delany, remembers,
Reports conflict about whether or not Lambert ever married. David Silcox and Harold Town wrote that she never married, while Roy MacGregor wrote that she married a man and had two daughters with him.
She died in Marysville, Washington in 1981 at the age of 95.
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1886 births
1981 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American romantic fiction writers
American women novelists
American women romantic fiction writers
20th-century American women writers