Selina Shirley Hastings [SEP] occupation
Selina Hastings (writer)
Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born 5 March 1945) is a British journalist, author and biographer.
The elder daughter of Francis, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, by his second marriage to Margaret Lane, Hastings was educated at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where she took an MA degree.
Hastings has written books including "Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady" (1985), "Nancy Mitford" (1986), "The Singing Ringing Tree" (1988), "
, for the education of Methodist ministers). She financed the building of 64 chapels in England and Wales, wrote often to George Whitefield and John Wesley, and funded mission work in colonial America. She is also remembered for her adversarial relationships with other Methodists.
Personal life.
Selina Hastings was born Lady Selina Shirley, the second daughter of Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers, and Mary Levinge, at Staunton Harold Hall, a mansion near Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire. She married Theophilus Hastings