RS
was brought up by her American grandmother, Hannah (Whitall) Pearsall Smith
, a preacher, feminist, and religious writer, who had been born in 1832 and who died in 1911.
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Again set in rural nineteenth-centuryAmerica, it is about a family which is all but ruined by an evil prophet from an ecstatic cult. The story was inspired by Hannah Whitall
's documents on...
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Ray Strachey
RS
published Frances Willard
: Her Life and Work, a biography of her grandmother Hannah Whitall
's close friend, an important early feminist and educator.
Woolf, Virginia. “Frances Willard”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 568, 28 Nov. 1912, p. 544.
544
Spender, Dale. Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.
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Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books, 1980.
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Ray Strachey
RS
published a biography and tribute to her grandmother Hannah Whitall
, A Quaker Grandmother.
Chapman, Wayne K., and Janet M. Manson, editors. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education. Pace University Press, 1998.
258
Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books, 1980.
166
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Ray Strachey
RS
edited Religious Fanaticism: Extracts from the Papers of Hannah Whitall Smith; it was republished in 1934 as Group Movements of the Past and Experiments in Guidance.
Brogan, Denis William. “Religious Fanaticism”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1400, 29 Nov. 1928, p. 922.
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Hannah Whitall Smith
had raised her daughters and granddaughters to write daily letters, and RS
followed this tradition until she died.