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
The Life Insurance Company of Virginia workplace through an industrial arm. The company began its series of acquisitions and reorganizations in 1986, when Life of Virginia was purchased by the Combined Insurance Company of America (AON Corporation) for $557 million. In 1995, GE Capital acquired most of AON Corporation’s life insurance business, including Life of Virginia, and in 2003, Genworth Financial was formed out of several GE Capital businesses. The Life Insurance Company of Virginia The Life Insurance Company of Virginia is a life insurance company founded in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1871. Known colloquially as “Life of Virginia”, the company went through several major acquisitions over