I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

In her biography on Voltaire Hall wrote the phrase: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" (which is often misattributed to Voltaire himself) as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs. Hall appeared to be an important influence in the life of Hugh Stowell Scott (pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman). Notes and.

Hall appeared to be an important influence in the life of Hugh Stowell Scott (pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman). Upon his death in 1903 Scott left £5000 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. Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868 – after 1939) who wrote under the pseudonym S.