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 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 the years before ultimately becoming Genworth Financial one of the leading financial security companies. Life of Virginia was founded by two dozen Petersburg investors in March 1871, when the Virginia General Assembly passed an act of incorporation for the “Life Insurance Company of Virginia.” With A.G. McIlwaine as the company’s first president, and D’Arcy Paul and D.B. Tennant serving as vice presidents, the