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Evelyn Beatrice Hall – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall

Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868 – after 1938), who wrote under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire entitled The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906.

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’s quotation is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech.