Beatrice Hastings

Beatrice Hastings
Hastings in 1898
BornEmily Alice Haigh
(1879-01-27)27 January 1879
Hackney, London, England
Died30 October 1943(1943-10-30) (aged 64)
Worthing, West Sussex, England
Pen nameBeatrice Tina, D. Triformis, Alice Morning, Robert á Field, and others
OccupationWriter and critic
NationalityBritish
PeriodEarly 20th century

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 World War I. Hastings was also friend and lover of Katherine Mansfield, whose work was first published in The New Age. She also had love affairs with Wyndham Lewis and Amedeo Modigliani.