Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace

Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace (born Emily Honoria Leigh Hunt; 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; she was the grandniece of Leigh Hunt. 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.