Annie Russell Marble (August 10, 1864 – November 23, 1936) was an American essayist, whose work dealt with early American historical figures, authors of the Transcendental movement, some of whom she knew personally, and commentary on literature in general.
This had been preceded by a couple of magazine articles, and in addition to the books noted below, she was also a prolific author of essays on early American History and Literature and published a number of calendars and almanacs with a literary theme.
Philip F. Gura at UNC noted that she had lived at the Ripley's Brook Farm community, and quoted her as saying that "Transcendentalists were 'a race who dove into the infinite, soared into the illimitable, and never paid cash.
"[4] Gura, however, is mistaken; the Brook Farm community disbanded in 1847, nearly twenty years before Mrs. Marble was born.
[5] Mrs. Marble left a collection of 54 letters from noteworthy literary figures such as Willa Cather, Julia Ward Howe, and Jane Goodwin Austin.