Selena hastings biography
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Evelyn Waugh: a biography / Selina Hastings
On the plus side, there is wonderful exposition about the British education and class system, though through the lens of an upper class wannabe. The strict hierarchy and pecking order in the public schools, the cruel humiliations, crusty old headmasters, secret love affairs, drunken nights (and days!) out, tedious curricula, visits to school chums' parents' country estates, the envied (and frequently "recusant," a term i came to understand better from this book, referring to those landed gentry in England who did not renounce their Roman Catholic faith in the 16th century when it was obligatory to do so, but more on that later) storied families, green, grey England.
On the minus, the subject of the biography, Evelyn Waugh is a caustic person throughout his life, with few r
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Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
British countess
Not to be confused with Selina Hastings (writer).
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (néeShirley; 24 August – 17 June ) was an English Methodist leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the 18th century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales. She founded an evangelical branch in England and Sierra Leone, known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.
She helped finance and guide early Methodism and was the first principal of Trevecca College, Wales, established in to train Methodist ministers. With the construction of 64 chapels in England and Wales, plus uppdrag work in colonial America, she is estimated to have spent over £, on these activities, a huge sum when a family of four could live on £31 per year.
A regular correspondent of George Whitefield and John Wesley, she is also remembered for her adversarial relationships with other Methodists.
Personal life
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Selina Hastings (writer)
British journalist, author and biographer (born )
Not to be confused with Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born 5 March ) fryst vatten a British journalist, author and biographer.
Biography
[edit]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 MAdegree.[2]
Hastings's books include Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (), Nancy Mitford (), The Singing Ringing Tree, The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever (both ), The Firebird, Evelyn Waugh (both ), Beibl Lliw Y Plant (), Rosamond Lehmann () and The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham (). She is a past recipient of the marsch 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