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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.

Alfred Richard Orage (22 January 1873 – 6 November 1934) was a British influential figure in socialist politics and modernist culture, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age before the First World War. While he was working as a schoolteacher in Leeds he pursued various interests, including Plato, the Independent Labour Party and theosophy. In 1900, he met Holbrook Jackson and three years later they co-founded the Leeds Arts Club, which became a centre of modernist culture in Britain. After 1924, Orage went to France to work with George Gurdjieff and was then sent to the United States by Gurdjieff to raise funds and lecture. He translated several of Gurdjieff's works.

Katherine Mansfield (née à Wellington (Nouvelle-Zélande) le 14 octobre 1888 et morte à Avon (Seine-et-Marne) le 9 janvier 1923), nom de plume de Kathleen Mansfield Murry née Beauchamp, est une écrivaine et poétesse britannique d'origine néo-zélandaise.

Puisant son inspiration tout autant de ses expériences familiales que de ses nombreux voyages, elle contribua au renouvellement de la nouvelle moderniste avec ses histoires courtes fondées sur l’observation et souvent dénuées d’intrigue.

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, italijanski umetnik, slikar in kipar, * 12. julij 1884, Livorno, Toskana, Italija, † 24. januar 1920, Pariz, Francija.

Modigliani je večino svoje kratke kariere ustvarjal v Franciji, sicer pa je bil rojen v Livornu v osrednji Italiji. Prvo umetniško izobraževanje je tudi opravil v domovini, leta 1906 pa se je preselil v Pariz. Njegova umetnost je unikatna in težko opredeljiva, saj je povsem odstopal od svojih sodobnikov, čeprav je sprejemal številne vplive v tem krogu in tudi vsrkaval vplive predhodnih slogov, predvsem primitivne umetnosti. Umrl je v Parizu, ko je podlegel tuberkulozi, povsem na koncu z močmi, zgaran in uničen zaradi pretiranega uživanja narkotikov in alkohola, star komaj 35 let.