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
Dorrance Publishing Company of selecting clients based on potential for commercial success. As of March 2018, Dorrance Publishing has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. Dorrance Publishing Company Dorrance Publishing Company, Inc. is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania–based self-publishing company. The company publishes both traditional printed books as well as ebooks. The company's website reports that they were founded by Gordon Dorrance in 1920. The Catalogue of Copyright Entries for that year lists "Dorrance & company, inc." publishing works "The Pocket Chesterfield" and "Broken Shackles". Dorrance set up the company after a work he was editing did not complete publication with Scribners. They