Chatto & Windus
Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm reorganized under the names of his business partner Andrew Chatto and poet William Edward Windus. The company was purchased by Random House in 1987 and is now a sub-imprint of Vintage Books within the Penguin UK division.
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- 1855.
- Founder
- John Camden Hotten and Andrew Chatto.
- Headquarters
- London.
- Part of
- Penguin Random House.
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Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm reorganized under the names of his business partner Andrew Chatto and poet William Edward Windus. The company was purchased by Random House in 1987 and is now a sub-imprint of Vintage Books within the Penguin UK division.
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It is associated with United Kingdom. The record gives 1855 as its date of establishment or first appearance. It forms part of Penguin Random House. Its recorded founders are John Camden Hotten and Andrew Chatto. Its recorded seat is London.
The firm developed out of the publishing business of John Camden Hotten, founded in 1855. After his death in 1873, it was sold to Hotten's junior partner Andrew Chatto (1841–1913), who took on as a partner the poet William Edward Windus (1827–1910), son of the patron of J. M. W. Turner, Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1790–1867). Chatto & Windus published Mark Twain, W. S. Gilbert, Wilkie Collins, H. G. Wells, Wyndham Lewis, Richard Aldington, Frederick Rolfe (as Fr. Rolfe), Aldous Huxley, Samuel Beckett, the "unfinished" novel 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), among others. In 1946, the company took over the running of the Hogarth Press, founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. 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. Chatto & Windus became a limited company in 1953, and it was active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged with Jonathan Cape. Norah Smallwood was appointed to the board, and later succeeded Ian Parsons as chairman and managing director in 1975, serving until her retirement in 1982. Chatto, along with Jonathan Cape and Virago Press, were purchased by Penguin Random House in 1987. As of 2019, Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Vintage Publishing UK.
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1855
Chatto & Windus established.
1855
Chatto & Windus is recorded from 1855.
1883
Chatto & Windus's List of Books, May 1883 is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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- 1.Chatto and Windus Limited – overview. Companies House.
- 2.Chatto & Windus Ltd. Archive. University of Reading.
- 3.Chatto & Windus ¦ Making Britain. Open University.
- 4.VINTAGE: Chatto & Windus. Penguin Books.
- 5."Books for Today" + Chatto, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- 6.se:The Centaur Library, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- 7.Chatto & Windus, arthur-conan-doyle.com. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- 8.Chatto Curiosities of the British Street (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- 9.se:Chatto poets for the young, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- 10.se:Columbus Centre series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- 11.Krygier, John. Dolphin Books. Ohio Wesleyan University.
- 12.Krygier, John. Golden Library. Ohio Wesleyan University.
- 13."Immortals of science" + Chatto, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- 14.se:The Khaki Library, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- 15."The King's Classics" + Chatto, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- 16.Krygier, John. Landmark Library. Ohio Wesleyan University.
- 17.se:Life in art and photograph, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- 18.Krygier, John. New Medieval Library. Ohio Wesleyan University.
- 19.The New Phoenix Library (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- 20.The Phoenix Library (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- 21.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.
- 22.Phoenix Library, worldcat.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- 23.Phoenix Library of Food and Drink, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- 24.The Phoenix Living Poets (Chatto & Windus) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- 25.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.
- 26.Krygier, John. St. Martin's Library. Ohio Wesleyan University.
- 27.Krygier, John. Zodiac Books. Ohio Wesleyan University.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- 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, , p. 118.
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