Alice Elinor Lambert

Alice Elinor Lambert (January 8, 1886; Corvallis, Oregon – February 19, 1981; Darrington, Washington) was an American romance writer.[1]

Her father Charles Edward Lambert was a Methodist minister, educated at Northwestern University and the Garrett Biblical Institute. 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.[1] In 1896, they moved to Tacoma, Washington and later to Seattle, Washington.

In 1904, she enjoyed a brief summer romance with Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson.[2] Lambert married Joseph Ransburg in 1912 in San Francisco. They had two daughters: Victoria (born 1913) and Josephine (born 1916). Lambert separated from Ransburg in the 1920s, moved to San Francisco and became an advice columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. According to the 1930 U.S. Census, she was again living with Ransburg. In 1931, she again separated, moving to New York. She returned to Seattle the following year and divorced Ransburg.

In the 1930s, she self-published with Vanguard Press at least three romance novels: Hospital Nocture, Women Are Like That, and Lost Fragrance, all later re-published by Dell Romance.

References

  1. 1 2 Noel V. Bourasaw, Alice Elinor Lambert and Elizabeth Poehlman and their quest for history and a special guest — painter Tom Thomson, Skagit River Journal of History & Folklore (2005)
  2. ↑ Murray, Joan (1994). Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn

Bibliography

  • Noel V. Bourasaw, Alice Elinor Lambert and Elizabeth Poehlman and their quest for history and a special guest — painter Tom Thomson, Skagit River Journal of History & Folklore (2005).
  • Lehto, Neil J. (2005). Algonquin Elegy Tom Thomson's Last Spring. iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-36132-3.
  • Murray, Joan (1994). Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn.


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