Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace Explained

Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace
Birth Name:	Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt
Birth Place:	Strand, London, England
Death Place:	Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England
Occupation:	Healer, writer, entrepreneur, activist
Children:	7
Relatives:	Leigh 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.^[4] She was trained by her future husband Joseph Wallace, who she met at a phrenological meeting held by James Burns.^[5] They married in 1878; the couple had seven children.^[6] 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".^[7]

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.

Wallace died on 16 March 1927 in Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

Selected publications

• 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 Invisibilty 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

1. Web site: Davis. Sally. 2019-10-16. Isabel De Steiger's Art Works Alphabetical by Title. live. 2021-02-27. Roger Wright & Sally Davis. https://web.archive.org/web/20200717231606/http://www.wrightanddavis.co.uk/GD/ISABELWORKSALPH.htm . 2020-07-17 .
2. Web site: Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt. 2021-03-01. The Binns Family.
3. Book: Maxwell, Catherine. Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature. Manchester University Press. 2009. 978-1-84779-180-1. Manchester. 54–55. j.ctt155jcqk. 823740840.
4. Scott. Anne L.. 1999-12-01. Physical purity feminism and state medicine in late nineteenth-century england. Women's History Review. 8. 4. 625–653. 10.1080/09612029900200220. 22619785. 0961-2025. free.
5. Book: Gregory, James. Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain. 2007. Tauris Academic Studies. 978-1-4356-1584-7. London. 107. 184749981.
6. Book: Forward, Charles Walter. Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. The Ideal Publishing Union, The Vegetarian Society. 1898. London, Manchester. 134. Charles W. Forward.
7. Book: Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England. University of Chicago Press. 2004. 0-226-64205-4. Chicago. 127–138. 53434582.