Alice Elinor Lambert
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Alice Elinor Lambert (January 8, 1886 - February 19, 1981) was a writer. In the 1930s, she self-published with Vanguard Press at least three romance novels, Hospital Nocture, Women Are Like That, and Lost Frangrance, all later re-published by Dell Romance. In 1904, she enjoyed a brief summer romance with Tom Thomson, who would become known, following his mysterious drowning in 1917, as one of Canada's greatest landscape painters. Alice married Joseph Ransburg in 1912. They had two daughters, Victoria, 1914, and, Josephine, 1916. She separated from Ransburg in the 1920s, moved to San Francisco and wrote an advice column for the San Francisco Examiner newspaper. 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.
[edit] References
- Noel V. Bourasaw, Alice Elinor Lambert and Elizabeth Poehlman and their quest for history and a special guest — painter Tom Thomson, <a href="http://www.stumpranchonline.com/skagitjournal/Washington/Snohomish/Monte/Alice1-Bio1.html">Skagit River Journal of History & Folklore</a> (2005).
- Lehto, Neil J. Algonquin Elegy Tom Thomson's Last Spring. iUniverse, 2005. ISBN 0-595-36132-3
- Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn, 1994.
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