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 Willa Cather, Julia Ward Howe, and Jane Goodwin Austin. See also Transcendentalism References External links 1864 births 1936 deaths American essayists Writers from Worcester, Massachusetts