Hogarth Press Hogarth Press The Hogarth Press was a British publishing house founded in 1917 by Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond (then in Surrey and now in London), in which they began hand-printing books. During the interwar period, the Hogarth Press grew from a hobby of the Woolfs to a business when they began using commercial printers. In 1938 Virginia Woolf relinquished her interest in the business and it was then run as a partnership by Leonard Woolf and John Lehmann until 1946, when it became an associate company of Chatto & Windus. "Hogarth"
The Life Insurance Company of Virginia The Life Insurance Company of Virginia The Life Insurance Company of Virginia is a life insurance company founded in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1871. Known colloquially as “Life of Virginia”, the company went through several major acquisitions over the years before ultimately becoming Genworth Financial one of the leading financial security companies. Life of Virginia was founded by two dozen Petersburg investors in March 1871, when the Virginia General Assembly passed an act of incorporation for the “Life Insurance Company of Virginia.” With A.G. McIlwaine as the company’s first president, and D’Arcy Paul and D.B. Tennant serving as vice presidents, the