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Charles Clark (1806–1880) was an English publisher, farmer and satirist.
As C. C.:
* ''The Song of the Brat''
* ''The Old Bachelor''
* ''Tiptree Races''
As Chilly Charley or Snarley Charley:
* ''Bills, Ills and Chills''
* ''Bagging and Bragging''
As Doggerel Drydog:
* ''September, or Sport on Sporting''
* ''Oh No! We'll Never Welcome Them!''
As Charles William Duckett:
* ''Stanzas from 'The Lay of the Brokenhearts' ''
As Thomas Hood the Younger:
* ''Epsom Races''
As Pe-Gs-Us:
* ''The Balloons''
As Quintin Queeerfellow:
* ''A Doctor's 'Do' ings''
has digitized 85 examples of his work
from thei
William Colgate History of Printing Collection
that can be accessed through their library catalogue and the Internet Archive.
''Finding Charles Clark 1806–1880. Not just another book collector''Great Totham Press at briarpress.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Charles 1806 births 1880 deaths 19th-century English farmers English male poets English publishers (people) People from Maldon, Essex 19th-century English businesspeople
Charles Clark (1806–1880) was an English publisher, farmer and satirist.
Life
He was the son of Robert Clark (died 1850), a farmer, and his wife Mary Ann Pond (died 1849), and was born atHeybridge, Maldon
Heybridge is a large village and civil parish in the Maldon district of Essex, England. It is adjacent to the town of Maldon, near the River Blackwater. The village had a population of 8,175 according to the 2011 Census.
Heybridge has a numbe ...
in Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...
. He attended a school in Witham
Witham () is a town in the county of Essex in the East of England, with a population ( 2011 census) of 25,353. It is part of the District of Braintree and is twinned with the town of Waldbröl, Germany. Witham stands between the city of Che ...
run by James Salisbury Dunn.
Clark started farming with his father, and they moved to Great Totham
Great Totham is a village and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex, England, and midway between Chelmsford and Colchester. The village includes the Island of Osea in the Blackwater estuary and is separated into two parts, north and south. The ...
in 1823. He was writing poetry by the mid-1820s, and set up a press by 1828. George William Johnson who lived in the village published his ''History of the Parish of Great Totham'' (1834) with Clark. Most of what he printed were parodies and songs, generally "exceedingly silly and indecent" according to Gordon Goodwin in the '' Dictionary of National Biography''. Clark imitated the poet Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as " The Bridge of Sighs" and " The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for ''The London Magazine'', '' Athenaeum'', and ''Punch' ...
, and in one case was threatened with legal action. That was caused by a poem of 1839, ''A Doctor's 'Do' ings'', on the marriage of Dr Henry Dixon.
An associate of Clark was the printer Philip Henry Youngman ( fl.1826–1851), in Witham and Maldon. Other productions from Clark's private press were reprints of tracts and old works, including one by the Tudor agricultural writer Thomas Tusser. Clark was given support in this direction by John Russell Smith
John Russell Smith (1810–1894), known as Russell Smith, was an English bookseller and bibliographer. He is best known for his "Library of Old Authors" reprint series.
Life
He was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, and was apprenticed to John Bryant of W ...
.
In later life Clark moved back to Heybridge, and in the 1860s became reclusive. He died unmarried on 21 March 1880, and his press and library were auctioned.
Bibliography
He wrote pseudonymously the following:
As C. C.:
* ''The Song of the Brat''
* ''The Old Bachelor''
* ''Tiptree Races''
As Chilly Charley or Snarley Charley:
* ''Bills, Ills and Chills''
* ''Bagging and Bragging''
As Doggerel Drydog:
* ''September, or Sport on Sporting''
* ''Oh No! We'll Never Welcome Them!''
As Charles William Duckett:
* ''Stanzas from 'The Lay of the Brokenhearts' ''
As Thomas Hood the Younger:
* ''Epsom Races''
As Pe-Gs-Us:
* ''The Balloons''
As Quintin Queeerfellow:
* ''A Doctor's 'Do' ings''
See also
*McGill University Librarhas digitized 85 examples of his work
from thei
William Colgate History of Printing Collection
that can be accessed through their library catalogue and the Internet Archive.
References
External links
''Finding Charles Clark 1806–1880. Not just another book collector''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Charles 1806 births 1880 deaths 19th-century English farmers English male poets English publishers (people) People from Maldon, Essex 19th-century English businesspeople