Founded in 1898 by Gerald Duckworth, half-brother of Virginia Woolf, the
company became legendary in the literary world for publishing such seminal
writers as: D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, John Galsworthy, Ford Madox Ford,
Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Firbank, Evelyn Waugh, Edith Sitwell, A.L. Rowse, John
Bayley, Penelope Fitzgerald, Oliver Sacks, and Beryl Bainbridge to name but a
few.