Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace
Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace | |
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 Portrait from Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898) | |
| Born | Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt 1854 Strand, London, England |
| Died | (aged 72) Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England |
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| Children | 7 |
| Relatives | Leigh Hunt (grand-uncle) |
Emily Honoria Leigh Wallace (née Hunt; 1854 – 16 March 1927), known as Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace, was an English healer, writer, entrepreneur and activist. She wrote on health, spiritualism, food reform and anti-vaccination, and was associated with vegetarianism and the temperance movements.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Wallace was born Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt in the Strand, London, in the third quarter of 1854.[1][2][3] She was the grandniece of Leigh Hunt.[4]
Career
[edit]Wallace worked as a lay healer. She claimed that spiritual faith and purity were the best means of healing disease.[5] She was trained by her future husband, Joseph Wallace, whom she met at a phrenological meeting held by James Burns.[4][6] They married in 1878;[7] the couple had seven children.[8]
Wallace opened a practice in London and employed several assistants. According to Alex Owen, patients were treated with a combination of "dietary control, hydropathy, physical manipulation and mesmerism".[7]
In 1877, Wallace undertook a national lecture tour, speaking at several spiritualist societies. She completed the novel Visibility Invisible and Invisibility Visible in 1879; it was serialised by James Burns. In 1890 she took over ownership of T. L. Nichols' journal Herald of Health, and later became its editor.[7]
Wallace served as a vice president of the Women's Vegetarian Union.[9]
Death
[edit]Wallace died of influenzal pneumonia on 16 March 1927 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, aged 72.[10][11]
Publications
[edit]- A Treatise on All Known Uses of Organic Magnetism (1876)
- Vaccination Brought Home to the People (1876)
- Practical Instructions in the Science and Art of Organic Magnetism
- Flesh Eating a Fashion
- Visibility Invisible and Invisibility Visible (1879)
- Dietetic Advice to the Young & Old (1884)
- Physianthropy: Or, the Home Cure and Eradication of Disease (with Joseph Wallace; 1885)
- 366 Menus: Each consisting of a soup, a savoury course, a sweet course, a cheese course, and a beverage, with all their suitable accompaniments, for every day in the year, no dish or beverage being once repeated, all arranged according to the season, and without the introduction of fish, flesh, fowl, or intoxicants with a cook's guide for the production of the dishes (1885)
- Private Instructions in the Science and Art of Organic Magnetism (1885)
- Visibility Invisible and Invisibility Visible (1888)
- Salt in Its Relation to Health & Disease (1913)
References
[edit]- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Antiquates: Fine & Rare Books (PDF). p. 172. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ↑ "Births Sep 1838: Hunt, Emily". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
- 1 2 Maxwell, Catherine (2009). Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature. Manchester University Press. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-1-84779-180-1. JSTOR j.ctt155jcqk. OCLC 823740840.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 Owen, Alex (2004). The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England. University of Chicago Press. pp. 127–138. ISBN 0-226-64205-4. OCLC 53434582.
- ↑ Forward, Charles Walter (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union. p. 134.
- ↑ "Annual Report 1897: The Women's Vegetarian Union (International)". International Vegetarian Union. Archived from the original on 17 April 2026. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
- ↑ "Deaths". Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette. 1 April 1927. p. 12. Retrieved 28 February 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Deaths Mar 1927: Emily H. L. Wallace". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
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- English temperance activists
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- Folk healers
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