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Beatrice Hastings was the pen name of Emily Alice Haigh (27 January 1879 – 30 October 1943), an English writer, literary critic, poet and theosophist. Her work was integral to British magazine The New Age which she helped edit along with her lover, A. R. Orage, prior to the outbreak of the First World War. [1]
Aug 3, 2022 · Marginalized in early histories of Modernist literature, Hastings left a mark on one of the most influential literary magazines of the early twentieth century. Beatrice Hastings is a little-known figure in the literary and artistic movements of the early twentieth-century, despite her numerous contributions.
If she is known today, it is often as “Modi’s” lover or as the subject of 17 of his paintings hanging in art galleries around the world—such as Madame Pompadour (1914), Beatrice Hastings in Front of a Door (1915) and Beatrice Hastings with a Mauve-Checked Blouse (1916).
Beatrice Hastings (1879-1943) wrote prolifically for The New Age, a newspaper which she also helped edit, during its run in the early twentieth century. As the editors write in the introduction, “She wrote under a dizzying array of pen names: as Beatrice Tina, she was an aesthete, poet, and critic of restrictive roles for women; as D ...
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Biography. Beatrice Hastings (1879-1943), born Emily Alice Haigh, was a well-off young woman who supported herself on a large inheritance. Born in London but raised in South Africa, she was educated in Sussex near Hastings--a town from which she took her pseudo-name.
Nov 10, 2017 · In Beatrice Hastings: On the Life & Work of a Lost Modern Master—the 2016 offering from The Unsung Masters Series—we find the fullest portrait yet of a poet and polemicist little known today. Unlike most writers in the series, Hastings sought anonymity.
Hastings’s death was apparently a suicide: the last, large, self-destructive act of a life made up of small ones. She lives for us in her writings and in the images of her recorded by Modigliani.
