Chatto & Windus "Weir of Hermiston" (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first translation into English of Marcel Proust's novel "À la recherche du temps perdu" ("Remembrance of Things Past", C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1922), amongst others. In 1946, the company took over the running of the Hogarth Press, founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged with Jonathan Cape, it published broadly in the field of literature, including novels and poetry. It is not connected, except in the loosest historical fashion, with Pickering & Chatto Publishers. Norah Smallwood was appointed to
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Crowell-Collier Publishing Company was an American publisher that owned the popular magazines "Collier's", "Woman's Home Companion" and "The American Magazine". Crowell also published general interest books and references such as "Collier's Encyclopedia" and the Harvard Classics series of books. The company was founded by agricultural tool manufacturer P. P. Mast with a single magazine, "Farm & Fireside ("later the "Country Home"")" to sell farm tools and implements in 1877 in Springfield, Ohio. By 1881, Mast had relinquished control to John S. Crowell who expanded their company by purchasing "Home Companion" (later changing the name to "Woman's Home