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
Iris Publishing Company Iris Publishing Company The Iris Publishing Company were a small publishing company located at 30 and 31 Furnival Street, London, in the late nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century. They were associated with The Chichester Press and specialised in publishing translations of foreign language works into English. The founder of the firm was Andree de Keyser. The manager was her husband, the composer Alfred Ignace de Keyser (born 1872), of 16 Carleton Road, Tufnell Park, London, who died while holidaying in Bournemouth in 1917 after which the Iris Publishing Company appears to have ceased in business.