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Eva L. Ogden

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
BornFebruary 17, 1853
New Canaan, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedSeptember 8, 1919
Goshen, New York, U.S.
Other namesEva L. Lambert
Occupation(s)Poet, educator

Biography

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The David Lambert House, also known as Lilacstead, where Ogden lived and worked, she married in 1886. It is now owned by the Wilton Historical Society.

Ogden 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

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Ogden'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

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  1. ^ a b Selleck, Charles Melbourne (1896). Norwalk. The author. p. 172.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Lambert Corner". Wilton Historical Society. Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "King George's Head, Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution". Retrieved 2024-07-13.
  7. ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. "The Miller of Dee" St. Nicholas 8(2)(December 1880): 174.
  8. ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. "Maid of Honor" St. Nicholas 9(8)(June 1882): 602-606.
  9. ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. "Harder" Current Literature 13(1)(May 1893): 120.
  10. ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. (October 9, 1894). "If". The Youth's Companion. 57 (41): 377.
  11. ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. "In Lilac Time" Puck's Library (102)(1896): 134.
  12. ^ a b Pertwee, Ernest Guy (1912). The Reciter's Second Treasury of Verse, Serious and Humorous. G. Routledge & Sons. p. 626.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ a b New Pieces that Will Take Prizes in Speaking Contests. Hinds and Noble. 1901. pp. 240–248.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ a b Ogden, Eva L. (1926-02-26). "The Cold Storage Baby". The Okarche Times. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Answer to Request Furnished by Reader". The Atlanta Journal. 1900-02-20. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ Ogden, Eva L. (August 1881). "Proud Prince Cham". St. Nicholas. 8 (10): 813.
  19. ^ Ogden, Eva L. (1888-10-07). "His Way". The Sunday Leader. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ Ogden, Eva L. (1889-12-24). "A Christmas Legend". Sun-Journal. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ Lambert, Eva L. Ogden (June 8, 1899). "The Day After the Betrothal". Unity. 43: 261.
  22. ^ Ogden, Eva L. "Mary's Meadowing" St. Nicholas 31(8)(June 1904): 682-683.
  23. ^ "St. Nicholas". The Omaha Daily News. 1909-11-28. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-07-13 – via Newspapers.com.
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