Hold the Front Page!: The Wit and Wisdom of Anne Scott-James

About Clare Hastings

Clare Hastings started her career in the fashion department of Harpers & Queen magazine before leaving to work freelance as a stylist and later as a costume designer. Thirty years later Clare changed direction to work freelance alongside her daughter Calypso in The Indytute. Clare Hastings started her working life at Harpers & Queen magazine before leaving to work as a stylist and then as a costume designer. Thirty years later Clare changed direction to work alongside her daughter Calypso in The Indytute. She is the author of Gardening Notes from a Late Bloomer and The House in Little Chelsea. Anne Scott-James (1913-2009) was Women's Editor of Picture Post during the Second World War and Editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1945-51. She wrote 'The Anne Scott-James Page' for the Sunday Express from 1953-57 and was a columnist for the Daily Mail from 1960-68.She also wrote for Vogue and Queen and was the author of many books including In the Mink Down to Earth and Gardening Letters to my Daughter. She was married three times first briefly to Derek Verschoyle second to journalist and broadcaster Macdonald Hastings with whom she had a son Max and a daughter Clare and third to cartoonist and writer Osbert Lancaster. Clare Hastings started her working life at Harpers & Queen magazine before leaving to work as a stylist and then as a costume designer. Thirty years later Clare changed direction to work alongside her daughter Calypso in The Indytute. She is the author of Gardening Notes from a Late Bloomer and The House in Little Chelsea. Anne Scott-James (1913-2009) was Women's Editor of Picture Post during the Second World War and Editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1945-51. She wrote 'The Anne Scott-James Page' for the Sunday Express from 1953-57 and was a columnist for the Daily Mail from 1960-68.She also wrote for Vogue and Queen and was the author of many books including In the Mink Down to Earth and Gardening Letters to my Daughter. She was married three times first briefly to Derek Verschoyle second to journalist and broadcaster Macdonald Hastings with whom she had a son Max and a daughter Clare and third to cartoonist and writer Osbert Lancaster.