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British journalist, author and biographer (born 1945)
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Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born 5 March 1945) is a British journalist, author and biographer.
Biography
The elder daughter of
Francis, 16th Earl of Huntingdon , by his second marriage to
Margaret Lane ,
[1] Hastings was educated at
St Hugh's College, Oxford , where she took an
MA
degree .
[2]
Hastings' books include Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (1985), Nancy Mitford (1986), The Singing Ringing Tree , The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever (both 1988), The Firebird , Evelyn Waugh (both 1995), Beibl Lliw Y Plant (1998), Rosamond Lehmann (2002) and The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham (2010). She is a past recipient of the
Marsh Biography Award .
[3]
Reviewing Nancy Mitford for
The New York Times , William McBrien questioned Hastings' sparse documentation of some of the facts in the book. He praised the book for its depiction of that historical period.
[4] Evelyn Waugh was reviewed by The New York Times ,
The Guardian and
The Spectator .
[5]
[6]
[7] Rosamond Lehmann was reviewed in The Guardian and
The Daily Telegraph .
[8]
[9] The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham was reviewed in The New York Times , The Guardian ,
The Washington Post and the
Los Angeles Times .
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
Hastings was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1994.
[14] Among others she and her sister, Lady Harriet Shackleton, are in
remainder to several ancient
English
baronies , including those of
Hastings and
Botreaux .
See also
References
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"ThePeerage.com, p. 7908" . ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 1 April 2015 .
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"Debrett's People of Today " . Debretts.com. 5 March 1945. Archived from
the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015 .
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International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 .
Europa Publications . 2003. p. 238.
ISBN
978-1-85743-179-7 . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
^ McBrien, William (17 August 1986).
"O Brave U World" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
^ Kenner, Hugh (16 April 1995).
"Hell was other people" . The New York Times . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
^ Sevenson, Sinclair (30 October 1994).
"Keeping his gin, not his chin, up" .
The Guardian . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
^ Kane, Russell.
" 'Evelyn Waugh: A Biography', by Selina Hastings – review" .
The Spectator . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
^ Clark, Alex (7 June 2002).
"O I must tell Osbert!" . The Guardian . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
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Picardie, Justine (15 June 2002).
"A problem with beauty" .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
^ Leavitt, David (22 July 2010).
"Lives of the Novelists: Somerset Maugham" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
^ Sansom, Ian (18 September 2009).
"The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings" . The Guardian . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
^ Dirda, Michael (20 May 2010).
"Selina Hastings's 'The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham,' reviewed by Michael Dirda" .
The Washington Post . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
^ Rayner, Richard (30 May 2010).
"Book review: 'The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham' by Selina Hastings" .
Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 8 April 2015 .
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"Royal Society of Literature, RSL Fellows" . RSLiterature.org. Retrieved 1 April 2015 .
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