British book publisher
Chatto & Windus is animprint ofPenguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 byJohn Camden Hotten . Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his business partnerAndrew Chatto and poetWilliam Edward Windus . The company was purchased byRandom House in 1987 and is now a sub-imprint ofVintage Books within thePenguin UK division.
The firm developed out of the publishing business ofJohn Camden Hotten , founded in 1855. After his death in 1873, it was sold to Hotten's junior partnerAndrew Chatto (1841–1913), who took on the poetWilliam Edward Windus (1827–1910), son of the patron of J. M. W. Turner, Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1790–1867), as partner. Chatto & Windus publishedMark Twain ,W. S. Gilbert ,Wilkie Collins ,H. G. Wells ,Wyndham Lewis ,Richard Aldington ,Frederick Rolfe (as Fr. Rolfe),Aldous Huxley ,Samuel Beckett , the "unfinished" novelWeir of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson , and the first translation into English ofMarcel Proust 's novelÀ la recherche du temps perdu Remembrance of Things Past ,C. K. Scott-Moncrieff , 1922), among others.
In 1946, the company took over the running of theHogarth Press , founded in 1917 byLeonard andVirginia Woolf . Active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged withJonathan Cape ,[ 1] Pickering & Chatto Publishers .
Chatto & Windus became alimited company in 1953.[ 2] Norah Smallwood was appointed to the board, and later succeeded Ian Parsons as chairman andmanaging director in 1975, serving until her retirement in 1982.
Chatto, along with Jonathan Cape andVirago Press were purchased byPenguin Random House in 1987.[ 3] [ 4]
Ancient Culture and Society The BBC Reith Lectures Books for Today[ 5] Brief Lives (also published byNan A. Talese /Doubleday in United States asAckroyd 's Brief Lives) Britain in the World Today (also published byJohns Hopkins Press , Baltimore) Central African Archives: Oppenheimer Series The Centaur Library[ 6] Chatto & Windus Paperbacks Chatto and Windus's Colonial Library[ 7] Chatto & Windus' Sixpenny Novels Chatto Anthologies (sometimes referred to as "Chatto Book of" series) Chatto Counterblasts Chatto Curiosities of the British Street[ 8] Chatto Nature Guides Chatto Pocket Library Chatto Poetry Chatto Poets for the Young[ 9] Children's Life in Other Lands Series Collected Works: Aldous Huxley Columbus Centre Series (for Sussex University Press) (joint publisher:Heinemann Educational )[ 10] The Complete Works of Bret Harte Compact Poets Dawn of History Series The Dolphin Books[ 11] Dumpy Books for Children The Golden Library[ 12] Gotham Library The Great Songwriters Immortals of Science[ 13] Franklin Watts, Inc. , New York) The Key of the Kingdom The Khaki Library[ 14] The King's Classics[ 15] The Landmark Library[ 16] Life and Art in Photograph[ 17] Oxford University Press , New York) London Limited Editions Mathematics for Science and Technology The Mayfair Library The Medieval Library Modern Science: Physics and Chemistry Modular Textbooks in Engineering My Life And Times: Compton Mackenzie National Benzole Books The New Medieval Library[ 18] The New Phoenix Library[ 19] New Piccadilly Library Pelham Library Phoenix Anthologies Series The Phoenix Library[ 20] [ 21] [ 22] Phoenix Library of Food and Drink[ 23] The Phoenix Living Poets[ 24] Phoenix Novels Piccadilly Library Series Piccadilly Novels Play Ideas Series (AKA Play Ideas and Things-to-do Series) The Queen's Classics The Reform Series Richmond Lectures The Robins Series Royal Road Readers The Shakespeare Library, comprising the series (1) The Old-Spelling Shakespeare; (2) The Shakespeare Classics; (3) The Lamb Shakespeare for the Young; and (4) Shakespeare's England[ 25] St Antony's Papers St Martin's Library[ 26] The Stage Poet Studies in English History Studies in International Security (for theInternational Institute for Strategic Studies ) Use of English Pamphlets The Vampire Chronicles The Vanguard Library Young Learner Books Zodiac Books[ 27] ^ "Chatto & Windus Ltd. Archive" .University of Reading . Retrieved5 April 2021 .^ "Chatto and Windus Limited – overview" .Companies House . Retrieved5 April 2021 .^ "Chatto & Windus ¦ Making Britain" .Open University . Retrieved5 April 2021 .^ "VINTAGE: Chatto & Windus" .Penguin Books . Retrieved5 April 2021 .^ "Books for Today" + Chatto , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.^ se:The Centaur Library , worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.^ Chatto & Windus , arthur-conan-doyle.com. Retrieved 16 February 2024.^ Chatto Curiosities of the British Street (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List , publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.^ se:Chatto poets for the young , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.^ se:Columbus Centre series , worldcat.org. Retrieved 2 March 2024.^ Krygier, John."Dolphin Books" .Ohio Wesleyan University . Retrieved5 July 2020 . ^ Krygier, John."Golden Library" .Ohio Wesleyan University . Retrieved5 July 2020 . ^ "Immortals of science" + Chatto , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.^ se:The Khaki Library , worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.^ "The King's Classics" + Chatto , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.^ Krygier, John."Landmark Library" .Ohio Wesleyan University . Retrieved5 July 2020 . ^ se:Life in art and photograph , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.^ Krygier, John."New Medieval Library" .Ohio Wesleyan University . Retrieved5 July 2020 . ^ The New Phoenix Library (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List , publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.^ The Phoenix Library (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List , publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.^ Andrew Nash,"Sifting out 'Rubbish' in the Literature of the Twenties and Thirties: Chatto & Windus and the Phoenix Library" , in: John Spiers, ed.,The Culture of the Publisher's Series , vol. 1, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2020. ^ Phoenix Library , worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.^ Phoenix Library of Food and Drink , seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 17 May 2023.^ The Phoenix Living Poets (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List , publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.^ Frak Sidgwick,The Sources and Analogues of A Midsummernight's Dream , London: Chatto & Windus, 1908, publisher's advertisement in final pages. Retrieved 2 March 2024. ^ Krygier, John."St. Martin's Library" .Ohio Wesleyan University . Retrieved5 July 2020 . ^ Krygier, John."Zodiac Books" .Ohio Wesleyan University . Retrieved5 July 2020 . Warner, Oliver,Chatto & Windus: A Brief Account of the Firm's Origin, History and Development , London: Chatto & Windus, 1973. Knowlson, James,Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett , New York:Simon & Schuster , 1996. Sutherland, John ,The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction ,Stanford University Press : 1990,ISBN 0-8047-1842-3 , p. 118.
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