Hall was born on 28 September 1868 in
Shooter's Hill,
Kent, the second of the four children of the Reverend William John Hall (1830–1910),
Minor Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, and Isabella Frances Hall (
née Cooper). Her elder sister, Ethel Frances Hall (1865–1943), married the writer
Hugh Stowell Scott (pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman) in 1889. Evelyn Hall was to become an important influence in the life of her brother-in-law, with whom she co-authored two volumes of short stories,
From Wisdom Court (1893) and
The Money-Spinner (1896). Upon his death in 1903, Scott left £5,000 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". Hall never married, and died in
Wadhurst,
East Sussex, on 13 April 1956, aged 87. ==Bibliography==