Early and personal life Elizabeth Gillett was born in 1798 in
Bromyard,
Herefordshire, the daughter of John and Anne Gillett. She was baptised on 27 June 1798. She married
William Horsell in
Vowchurch on 30 June 1834.
Social reform From the 1840s, Horsell was active in the
temperance movement and was invited to speak at Dr John Lee's Peace and Temperance Festival. With her husband, she attended
vegetarian meetings in London and lectured at venues including the Talfourd Hotel. In 1846, the couple moved to
Ramsgate, where they established a
hydropathic boarding house.
Later life and death After her husband's death in 1863, Horsell remained involved in the vegetarian movement and ran a girls' boarding school that accepted vegetarian pupils. Horsell lived in
Lee, Kent, then a village on the outskirts of London, in her later years. == Publications ==