Hogarth Press the Woolfs lived, lending its name to the publishing company they founded. In July they published their first text, a book with one story written by Leonard and the other written by Virginia. Between 1917 and 1946 the Press published 527 titles. Hogarth Press has begun producing a series of modern retellings of William Shakespeare plays, for which it has hired a variety of authors, such as Jeanette Winterson, Howard Jacobson, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood, Tracy Chevalier and Edward St Aubyn for "The Winter's Tale", "The Merchant of Venice", "The Taming of the Shrew", "The Tempest", "Othello" and "King Lear"
Leonard Fairclough & Son Leonard Fairclough & Son Leonard Fairclough & Son Ltd was a construction firm based in Adlington, Lancashire, England. It is most famous for accepting the contract to destroy the Euston Arch. The firm was founded by Leonard Fairclough, a stonemason in Adlington who established his business in 1883. Leonard's son, Leonard Miller Fairclough, joined the company and continued to run it during the First World War. From 1917, the company traded as Leonard Fairclough Limited. In 1927, Leonard Miller Fairclough became chairman of the company, and retained this position until he retired in 1965. Sir Leonard was succeeded by Oswald