Louis Coues Page (1869 – 1956) was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Zurich to American parents, he attended Harvard College and worked for Boston publishers Estes & Lauriat, 1891–1892. In 1896 he bought the Joseph Knight Company and renamed it L.C. Page & Company; around 1914 it became The Page Company. It issued works of "art, travel, music, belles lettres" and fiction for adults and children. It operated from offices on Beacon Street in

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. Authors published by the firm included Bliss Carman,

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, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and

Eleanor H. Porter Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist, most known for ''Pollyanna'' (1913) and ''Just David'' (1916). Biography Eleanor Emily Hodgman was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, on December 19, 1 ...

. In 1914 the Page Company acquired Dana Estes & Co. Around the 1910s Louis and his brother George A. Page were co-owners of the

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baseball team. Page married Kate Stearns in 1895. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy acquired L.C. Page & Co. in 1957; the imprint continued until 1980.

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