Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Evelyn Beatrice Hall , who wrote under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire entitled The Life of Voltaire, first published in 1903. She also wrote The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906.

Hall was born onSeptember 1868 in Shooters Hill, Kent, the second of the four children of the Reverend William John Hall , Minor Canon of St Pauls Cathedral, and Isabella Frances . Her elder sister, Ethel Frances Hall , married the writer Hugh Stowell Scott in 1889. Evelyn Hall was to become an important influence in the life of her brotherinlaw, with whom she coauthored two volumes of short stories, From Wisdom Court and The MoneySpinner . Upon his death in 1903, Scott left 5,000 to Hall, writing that it was in token of my gratitude for her continued assistance and literary advice, without which I should never have been able to have made a living by my pen.

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