Smith, Hannah Whitall, 1832-1911

Religious leader and author.

Hannah Whitall Smith preached and wrote on religious subjects and became involved in the temperance and suffrage movements. When her daughter Mary married English barrister Frank Costelloe in 1888, Hannah, her husband Robert and their children, Alys and Logan, joined Mary in England. Alys married philosopher Bertrand Russell and worked for women's rights as well as other political issues. When Mary's marriage failed soon after the birth of their second daughter Karin, she left England to tour the museums and cathedrals of Europe with her future husband, art critic Bernard Berenson. Her older daughter Ray dedicated herself to women's issues, while Karin became a pioneer in Freudian psychoanalysis and one of Britain's first psychoanalysts. Ray married into the Strachey family and Karin wed Virginia Woolf's brother Adrian Stephen.

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