Hannah Whitall Smith, n e Hannah Whitall, (born February 7, 1832, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.--died May 1, 1911, Iffley near Oxford], England), American evangelist and reformer, a major public speaker and writer in the Holiness movement of the late 19th century. Hannah Whitall grew up in a strict Quaker home and had from childhood a deep concern with religion and a habit of introspection. In 1851 she married Robert Pearsall Smith, also...