Norah Smallwood

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Norah Evelyn Smallwood OBE (30 December 1909–11 October 1984), née Walford, was an English publisher.

Smallwood was born in Little Kingshill, Buckinghamshire. She joined Chatto and Windus as a secretary in 1936 and rapidly worked her way up, becoming a partner in 1945. She was on the board the Hogarth Press, which had been bought by Chatto & Windus, from 1946, and worked closely with its founder, Leonard Woolf. 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.

She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1973.

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• Dictionary of National Biography