Carro Morrell Clark

Carro Morrell Clark
Clark, circa 1904
BornSeptember 6, 1867
Unity, Maine
DiedFebruary 16, 1950
OccupationPublisher
Spouses
  • Charles F. Atkinson
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    (m. 1897; div. 1913)​
  • Leon H. Lempert, Jr.
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    (m. 1914)​

Carro Morrell Clark (pen name, Carro Frances Warren; after first marriage, Atkinson; after second marriage, Lempert; 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] The C. M. Clark Publishing Company operated from September 1900[5] to April 1912[9] and had its headquarters at 211 Tremont Street, Boston. 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,[10][11] and sold 500,000 copies.[12] 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 (by Dwight Tilton, 1902), 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.

  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". October 26, 1903.
  5. ^ a b Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary Hannah (1904). "CARRO MORRELL CLARK". Sketches of Representative Women of New England. New England Historical Publishing Company. pp. 393–95. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  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. ^ (2 March 1902). Woman Publisher Who Has Succeeded, Los Angeles Herald
  11. ^ French, George. With the Booksellers, American Printer (April 1906)
  12. ^ "What Is Your Money Earning You?". Riverside Daily Press. May 8, 1909.