Carro Morrell Clark

Carro Morrell Clark (September 6, 1867 – February 16, 1950)[1] was the founder and manager of the C. M. Clark Publishing Company, located in Boston, who, from 1900 through the end of 1906, was reported by some to be the only woman to publish books in the United States[2][3][4][5] and some claimed in the world.[6][7][8]

Carro Morrell Clark
Clark circa 1904
BornSeptember 6, 1867
Unity, Maine
DiedFebruary 16, 1950
OccupationPublisher

The C. M. Clark Publishing Company operated from September 1900[5] to April 1912[9] and had its headquarters at 211 Tremont Street, Boston. Clark was born and raised on a farm in Unity, Maine.[10]

The company's first release, Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks- A Story of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin, was aggressively marketed by Clark,[11][12] and sold 500,000 copies.[13] It was made into a play, a musical, and in 1922, a movie of the same title starring Lon Chaney and Blanche Sweet. Another book, Miss Petticoats, also went into theatrical production and was performed by, among others, Kathryn Osterman and the future film director, D.W. Griffith. In 1916, it was adapted as a silent film starring future Academy Award-winner Alice Brady.

In 1897, Carro married Charles F. Atkinson of Boston; they divorced in 1913. In 1914, she married the theater architect, Leon H. Lempert, Jr., of Rochester, New York.

References
  1. "Carro Clark Lempert Memorial". Findagrave.com. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. Publishers' Weekly: American Book-trade Journal ... F. Leypoldt. 1957.
  3. "Brooklyn Daily Eagle". August 26, 1902. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  4. "Walden's Stationer and Printer". Walden's Stationer and Printer. October 26, 1903.
  5. Howe, Julia Ward, ed., et al. Representative Women of New England, pp. 393-94 (New England Historical Publishing Company, Boston, 1904)
  6. "A Woman Book Publisher". The Tatler. June 15, 1904.
  7. "Woman's World-Miss Carro Clark". Newport News Daily Press. August 11, 1907. Retrieved January 4, 2016 – via Chronicling America.
  8. "A Successful Lady Publisher". Pitman's Journal. August 10, 1907. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  9. "Business Changes". The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer. April 15, 1912. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  10. Daphne Winslow Merrill (June 1983). A salute to Maine. Vantage Press. p. 66.
  11. (2 March 1902). Woman Publisher Who Has Succeeded, Los Angeles Herald
  12. French, George. With the Booksellers, American Printer (April 1906)
  13. "What Is Your Money Earning You?". Riverside Daily Press. May 8, 1909.
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