Miss (F.) Lambert

Frances Lambert, often published as Miss Lambert, was a British embroiderer, knitter, and author born in 1798. She later became Frances Sedgwick, and she is remembered for writing popular instructional books on needlework during the 1840s and 1850s.

She held the titles of embroiderer in general and "needlewoman in ordinary" to Queen Victoria, which helped establish her reputation in the world of Victorian domestic crafts. Her books, including The Hand-Book of Needlework and My Knitting Book, were published in London and New York and gave readers practical guidance on knitting, crochet, embroidery, and related techniques.

Lambert's appeal seems to have come from her clear, useful teaching style. Contemporary and later accounts describe her as one of the most popular needlework writers of her time, especially in nineteenth-century America, where her manuals helped shape how many readers learned these skills at home.