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.

Biography 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. In 1886, Ogden married educator David Samuel Rogers Lambert, and lived with him in the David Lambert House in Wilton.

Ogden's husband died in 1897; he was shot in their home, by burglars who also attacked her. One of the convicted killers was a former student at the Wilton Academy.

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 Ogden's poems were published in magazines including St. Nicholas, and Puck's Library. "The Cold Storage Baby" (1902) is a science fiction story by Ogden "Proud Prince Cham" (1881) "The Sea" (1881) "The Quest" (1882) "The Maid of Honor"(1882) "His Way" (1888) "A Christmas Legend" (1889) "Harder" (1893) "If" (1894) "The Day After the Betrothal" (1899) "Mistress Sherwood's Victory" (1901, story) "Dame Quigley's Glass" (1903) "Mary's Meadowing" (1904) "A Night Before Christmas" (1907) "My World" (1907) "The Legend of Piddinghoe" (1909)