Hannah Whitall

Standard Name: Whitall, Hannah

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Family and Intimate relationships Ray Strachey
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.
Textual Features Ray Strachey
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...
Textual Production 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.
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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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Textual Production 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.
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Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books, 1980.
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Textual Production 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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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Ray Strachey
Hannah Whitall Smith had raised her daughters and granddaughters to write daily letters, and RS followed this tradition until she died.

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