Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace

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

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

Emily Honoria Leigh Wallace (née Hunt;[1] 1854 – 16 March 1927), known as Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace, 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 the third quarter of 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.[4] She was trained by her future husband Joseph Wallace,[3] who she met at a 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 Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.[8]

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. ^ FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
  3. ^ a b Maxwell, Catherine (2009). Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-1-84779-180-1. JSTOR j.ctt155jcqk. OCLC 823740840.
  4. ^ Scott, Anne L. (1 December 1999). "Physical purity feminism and state medicine in late nineteenth-century england". Women's History Review. 8 (4): 625–653. doi:10.1080/09612029900200220. ISSN 0961-2025. PMID 22619785.
  5. ^ Gregory, James (2007). Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain. London: Tauris Academic Studies. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4356-1584-7. OCLC 184749981.
  6. ^ a b c d e Owen, Alex (2004). The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 127–138. ISBN 0-226-64205-4. OCLC 53434582.
  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.
  8. ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995.