[3] From an early age, Hall had a wide correspondence with writers and her scrapbook shows that between 1911 and 1917 she saved letters from Salvadoran poet Juan J. Cañas, Alberto Masferrer, Fences Redish (pseudonym of Dr. Manuel Valladares Rubio), Salomón de la Selva, Baronesa de Wilson, José Ramón Uriarte, and others.

The young couple were married on 3 February 1923 and the following years were spent by Hall with the Asturias family studying and reading literary works.

He kept meticulous records documenting the arrival of the first ancestor, Sancho Álvarez de Asturias, to Guatemala in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Reading these documents, inspired Hall to write a memoir, in the form of a historical novel, based on the life of Álvarez de Asturias.

Because during the dictatorship of Jorge Ubico Castañeda very little publishing could be done without government sanction, Hall's father presented the first chapters of his daughter's book to the Guatemalan Language Academy in May 1937, hoping to gain support for publication.

There were few who were members of Guatemala's academic and intellectual community who were not part of the debate and it extended to El Salvador, Argentina, and even Spain.

Much of the argument centered around the fact that Hall was a woman, and at the height of the controversy the book disappeared into the background as intellectuals postured, showing off their skill with language and history.

[8] After having tried to discuss and meet with opponents, Hall decided her best defense was to produce the second volume of the life of Sancho Álvarez de Asturias.

[14] Though originally Hall had planned a third installment of the series,[15] she grew a tired of the attacks of the small group of detractors, lost interest in writing and devoted herself to oil painting, watercolor and her gardening.

After the Guatemalan 1944 coup d'état the new Constitution, promulgated on 1 March 1945 granted the right to vote to all literate citizens, including women.

The justification of her authorship of Semilla de Mostaza became an obsession for Hall and in 1981, she made a compilation of the sources that she had consulted to document her work.