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
Curtis Publishing Company Curtis Publishing Company The Curtis Publishing Company, founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became one of the largest and most influential publishers in the United States during the early 20th century. The company's publications included the "Ladies' Home Journal" and "The Saturday Evening Post", "The American Home", "Holiday", "Jack & Jill", and "Country Gentleman". In the 1940s, Curtis also had a comic book imprint, Novelty Press. The Curtis Publishing Company was founded in 1891 by publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who published the "People's Ledger", a news magazine he had begun in Boston in 1872 and moved to Philadelphia in