Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace

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Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace
Portrait from Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898)
Born
Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt

1854 (1854)
Died16 March 1927(1927-03-16) (aged 72–73)
Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation(s)Healer, writer, entrepreneur, activist
Spouse
(m. 1878; died 1910)
Children7
RelativesLeigh Hunt (grand-uncle)

Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace (born Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt;[1] 1854 – 16 March 1927) was an English healer and writer on health, spiritualism and food reform. She was an entrepreneur and activist for vegetarianism, as well as an advocate for temperance and anti-vaccination.

Biography

Wallace was born in the Strand, London in 1854;[2] she was the grandniece of Leigh Hunt.[3]

Wallace worked as a lay healer, claiming that spiritual faith and purity were the best means of healing disease.

phrenological meeting held by James Burns.[5] They married in 1878;[6] the couple had seven children.[7] Wallace set up her own practice in London which employed a number of assistants; patients were treated with a combination of "dietary control, hydropathy, physical manipulation and mesmerism".[6]

In 1877, Wallace carried out a national lecture tour, where she spoke at multiple spiritualist societies.[6] She completed a novel in 1879, Visibility Invisible and Invisibility Visible, which was serialised by James Burns.[6] In 1890 Wallace took over the ownership of T. L. Nichols' journal Herald of Health; she later become its editor.[6]

Wallace died on 16 March 1927 in Missenden, Buckinghamshire.[2]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ Davis, Sally (16 October 2019). "Isabel De Steiger's Art Works Alphabetical by Title". Roger Wright & Sally Davis. Archived from the original on 17 July 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt". The Binns Family. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
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  7. ^ Forward, Charles Walter (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London, Manchester: The Ideal Publishing Union, The Vegetarian Society. p. 134.