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Beatrice Hastings (* 12. Mai 1879 in London; † 30. Oktober 1943 in Worthing; eigentlich Emily Alice Haigh) war eine britische Dichterin, Journalistin und Kunstkritikerin .
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]
Beatrice Hastings gab ihr ausschweifendes Pariser Leben 1931 auf und kehrte nach England zurück, wo sie beruflich jedoch nicht mehr Fuß fassen konnte. Einsam und verarmt beging sie am 30. Oktober 1943 in ihrer Wohnung Selbstmord.
19. Sept. 2017 · Encompassing them all was ‘Beatrice Hastings’ – itself the pseudonym of Emily Alice Beatrice Haigh, born in England in 1879 and raised in South Africa. After a falling out with her family and a brief marriage to a boxer, she returned to Europe in time for modernism’s heyday.
3. Aug. 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. Portrait of Beatrice Hastings before a door by Amedeo Modigliani.
Who Was Beatrice Hastings, the First Muse of Modigliani? Though Hastings initially described the artist as “ugly, ferocious, greedy”, it wasn’t long before a tumultuous and passionate love affair ignited between the two creatives.
Few people know of Beatrice Hastings today, although she was one of modernism’s most complicated and memorable figures. Born Emily Alice Beatrice Haigh in London, the seventh child of John Walter (a merchant and wool trader) and Catherine Jane (colonial-born), “Bea” grew up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She enjoyed a relatively idyllic ...
