Selina Hastings (writer)

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Selina Hastings
Born (1945-03-05) 5 March 1945 (age 80)
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • author
  • biographer
NationalityBritish
Education St Hugh's College, Oxford (MA)
Parents Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon
Margaret Lane
Hastings ancestral coat of arms Coat of Arms of Sir William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, KG.png
Hastings ancestral coat of arms

Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born 5 March 1945) is a British journalist, author and biographer.

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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's 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 her book 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]

Hastings was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1994. [5] Among others she and her sister, Lady Harriet Shackleton, are in remainder to several ancient English baronies, including those of Hastings and Botreaux.

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References

  1. "ThePeerage.com, p. 7908". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  2. "Debrett's People of Today". Debretts.com. 5 March 1945. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  3. International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Europa Publications. 2003. p. 238. ISBN   978-1-85743-179-7 . Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  4. McBrien, William (17 August 1986). "O Brave U World". The New York Times . Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  5. "Royal Society of Literature, RSL Fellows". RSLiterature.org. Retrieved 1 April 2015.