Selina Hastings
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Selina Hastings is a writer and journalist. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Oxford University. Selina's first job was at Hatchards bookshop but she went on to work for fourteen years on the Daily Telegraph and for eight years as literary editor of Harper's & Queen. Hastings has been visa mer a lecturer and visting scholar at a number of foundations and was Mellon Fellow during 2002-2003 at the Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas. From 2008-2009 Selina was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary's University, London and in 2009-2010 she was awarded the Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies. Selina is the author of four literary biographies: Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh (winner of the Marsh Biography Prize), Rosamond Lehmann and Somerset Maugham. She has also written a number of books for children. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she reviews regularly and has been a judge of the Booker, Whitbread, British Academy, Ondaatje and Duff Cooper Prizes, and of the UK Biographers' Award. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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(eng) Selina Hastings, the journalist and biographer of 4 literary biographies, including those of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, is also a children's book author. On reading her webpage "about me" Selina Hastings, they seem to be one and the same person -- she says she has written a number of childrens books http://www.selinahastings.com/index.p...
See the separate LT page for another Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791), an English religious leader and key figure in the Methodist movement.
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- Hastings, Selina Shirley
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- 1945-03-05
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- London, England, UK
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- London, England, UK
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- University of Oxford (St Hugh's College)
St Paul's Girls' School, London, England, UK - Yrken
- journalist
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- Daily Telegraph (books page|fourteen years)
Harper's & Queen (literary editor) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1994)
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- Selina Hastings, the journalist and biographer of 4 literary biographies, including those of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, is also a children's book author. On reading her webpage "about me" Selina Hastings, they seem to be one and the same person -- she says she has written a number of childrens books http://www.selinahastings.com/index.p...
See the separate LT page for another Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791), an English religious leader and key figure in the Methodist movement.
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There's a version of this that's much much better in a book called The Maid of the North.