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. She claimed that spiritual faith and purity were the best means of healing disease. She was trained by her future husband,
Joseph Wallace, They married in 1878; 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". 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. == Publications ==