Emily Honoria Leigh Wallace (néeHunt;[1] 1854 – 16 March 1927), known asChandos Leigh Hunt Wallace, was an English healer and writer on health,spiritualism, and food reform. She was an entrepreneur and activist forvegetarianism, as well as an advocate fortemperance andanti-vaccination.
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 husbandJoseph Wallace,[3] who she met at aphrenological meeting held byJames 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 multiplespiritualist 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 ofT. L. Nichols' journalHerald of Health; she later become its editor.[6]
