company random house founded 1855 ; 161 years ago 1855 founder john camden hotten andrew chatto w. e. windus country of origin united kingdom official website www.randomhouse.co.uk chatto & windus has been since 1987 an imprint of random house publishers . it was originally an important publisher of books in london founded in the victorian era . 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 the minor poet w. e. windus as partner . chatto & windus published mark twain w. s. gilbert wilkie collins h. g. wells richard aldington frederick rolfe as fr . rolfe aldous huxley samuel beckett the famous unfinished novel weir of hermiston 1896 by robert louis stevenson and the first translation into english of marcel proust s novel 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 board of chatto & windus when it became a limited company in 1953 and succeeded ian parsons as chairman and managing director in 1975 serving until her retirement in 1982 . see also category chatto & windus books further reading edit warner oliver chatto & windus a brief account of the firm s origin history and development 1973 knowlson james damned to fame the life of samuel beckett . simon & schuster new york 1996 sutherland john the stanford companion to victorian fiction stanford university press 1990 isbn 0 8047 1842 3 p. 118 . external links edit official website catalogs of 1887 and 1891 plus fiction and general literature catalogs of 1905 and 1913 are reproduced by project gutenberg v t e penguin random house random house usa crown crown broadway harmony hogarth three rivers ten speed watson guptill knopf doubleday knopf doubleday everyman s library us pantheon schocken vintage random house ballantine bantam dell del rey dial modern library spectra villard children s beginner books golden information books on tape fodor s living language the princeton review prima games uk cornerstone hutchinson random house william heinemann ebury bbc books ebury del rey fodor s rider virgin books 90 % transworld bantam doubleday vintage publishing the bodley head chatto & windus harvill secker jonathan cape vintage canada mcclelland & stewart douglas gibson books tundra books new canadian library other companhia das letras 45 % penguin random house grupo editorial alfaguara penguin group uk dorling kindersley hamish hamilton ladybird penguin penguin classics puffin rough guides viking warne us alpha author solutions authorhouse iuniverse trafford xlibris dutton penguin putnam riverhead sentinel tarcher viking berkley publishing group ace berkley new american library jove plume roc children s dial young readers dutton children s firebird g. p. putnam s sons grosset & dunlap philomel price stern sloan puffin warne parents bertelsmann pearson plc this article about a publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a media company in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title chatto % 26 windus & oldid 729352114 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdomrandom housepublishing companies established in 1855publishing company stubsunited kingdom media company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikisource languages deutschfran aisitalianorom n edit links this page was last modified on 11 july 2016 at 16 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view