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Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace

Emily Honoria Leigh Wallace (; 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 advocate for vegetarianism, temperance, and anti-vaccination.

Biography

Early life

Wallace was born Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt in the Strand, London, in the third quarter of 1854. She was the grandniece of Leigh Hunt.

Career

Wallace worked as a lay healer, claiming that spiritual faith and purity were the best means of healing disease. She was trained by her future husband Joseph Wallace, who she met at a phrenological meeting held by James Burns. They married in 1878; the couple had seven children.

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".

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

Death

Wallace died of influenzal pneumonia on 16 March 1927 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, aged 72.

Selected publications

  • A Treatise on All Known Uses of Organic Magnetism (1876)
  • ' (1876)
  • Practical Instructions in the Science and Art of Organic Magnetism
  • Flesh Eating a Fashion
  • Visibility Invisible and Invisibilty Visible (1879)
  • Dietetic Advice to the Young & Old (1884)
  • Physianthropy: Or, the Home Cure and Eradication of Disease (with Joseph Wallace; 1885)
  • ' (1885)
  • (1885)
  • Visibility Invisible and Invisibility Visible (1888)
  • Salt in Its Relation to Health & Disease (1913)

References