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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 · Learn how the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani met and fell in love with the English writer and poet Beatrice Hastings in Paris in 1914. Discover how their relationship inspired his portraits of her and influenced her literary and political work.
3. Aug. 2022 · Learn about Beatrice Hastings, a versatile writer and lover of Amedeo Modigliani and Katherine Mansfield. She was a co-editor of The New Age, a magazine of politics, philosophy, and aesthetics, and a pioneer of satire and parody.
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 ...
