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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.


Biography


Early life, education, and family

Born Annie Maria Russell, she was the daughter of Isaiah Dunster Russell and Nancy Wentworth Russell.''Women's Who's Who of America 1914–1915'', John William Leonard, ed. (NY: The American Commonwealth Company) She graduated from Worcester High School in 1882. In 1886 she received her A.B. from Smith College and in 1895 her M.A. from the same institution. In 1895 she married Charles Francis Marble of Worcester. Charles Marble was in a business named Curtis & Marble Machine Company, which produced machinery used in the textile industry. They had two children.''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'' (1939), 27:59


Early working life

In 1895 Marble became a trustee for the Home for Aged Women in Worcester, and also began an association with the Trade School for Girls in Worcester.


Literary career

Marble's career in literature, history, and essays began in 1897 with publication of an edition of
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’s ''On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History'', which she edited, with notes and introduction. 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. She was also literary editor and book reviewer for the Worcester ''Sunday Telegram'' (1920–29).


Bibliography

* ''Books that Nourish Us'' (1900) * ''
Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ''Walden'', a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and hi ...
: His Home, Friends and Books'' (1902) * ''Books in Their Seasons'' (1905) * In ''Heralds of American Literature'' (1907) she wrote about early patriots and literary figures as, for example "
Francis Hopkinson Francis Hopkinson (October 2,Hopkinson was born on September 21, 1737, according to the then-used Julian calendar (old style). In 1752, however, Great Britain and all its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar (new style) which moved Hopkinson's ...
Jurist, Wit, and Dilettante", and
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. * ''Pageant: Heroines of Literature'' (1915) * ''The Women Who Came in the
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'' (1920). Curiously, Marble was an opponent of women's suffrage. * ''Women of the Bible, Their Services in Home and State'' (1923) * ''The
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Winners in History'' (1925) * ''Study of the modern novel'' (1928) * ''Pen Names and Personalities'' (1930) * ''From Boston to Boston'' (1930) * ''Builders and Books'' (1931) * ''The Nobel Prize in Literature 1901–1931'' (1932) * ''From 'Prentice to Patron: The Life Story of Isaiah Thomas'' (1935)


Legacy

Mrs. Marble has been quoted for her personal knowledge of some members of the Transcendentalist movement. Philip F. Gura at UNC noted that she had lived at the Ripley's
Brook Farm Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and EducationFelton, 124 or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education,Rose, 140 was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s. It was fo ...
community, and quoted her as saying that "Transcendentalists were 'a race who dove into the infinite, soared into the illimitable, and never paid cash." Gura, however, is mistaken; the Brook Farm community disbanded in 1847, nearly twenty years before Mrs. Marble was born. Mrs. Marble has also been cited as an early critic of comic strips.


Other

Mrs. Marble was in the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mrs. Marble left a collection of 54 letters from noteworthy literary figures such as
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,
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, and Jane Goodwin Austin.


See also

*
Transcendentalism Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in New England. "Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Wald ...


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marble, Annie Russell 1864 births 1936 deaths American essayists Writers from Worcester, Massachusetts