Early and personal life Beatrice Dorothy Harriet Killick was born on 12 January 1855 in
Devizes. Her father was Rev. Richard Henry Killick. The church had previously been associated with her father, who served as its vicar during the 1860s. After her father's death in 1903, Killick experienced
depression. She later wrote that
Expression and Depression, a book by Miles, helped in her recovery and led her to write about her own experiences. After finding Miles's address, she contacted him. Their correspondence developed into a relationship, and Killick adopted his dietary ideas, including
vegetarianism, before their marriage.
Career Eustace Miles planned a "Simpler Food Restaurant" that would sell inexpensive meat-free meals. In 1906, after the couple's marriage, they opened the Eustace Miles Restaurant on Chandos Street,
Charing Cross. It served meat-free meals for athletes, students, writers, workers, and professionals. Its customers also included suffragettes of the
Women's Social and Political Union and
Sylvia Pankhurst. The restaurant served more than 1,000 meals a day. The American food writer
James Beard described it as the "only quality vegetarian restaurant in London".
Writing Miles's books included ''Life's Orchestra
, Life's Colours
, The Ideal Home and Its Problems
, The Cry of the Animals to their Human Friends
, Story of the Coronation and Passing of King Edward VII
, The Pilgrimage of the Cross
, Economy in Wartime; Or, Health Without Meat
, The Cry of the Desolate
, Our Kitchen
, and The New Road''. During
World War I, Miles kept a diary about her work organising concerts in hospitals and recruitment centres, the effect of the war on daily life, and the presence of refugees in London. It was published in 1930 as
Untold Tales of War-time London: A Personal Diary. The diary has been cited in studies of wartime Britain and women's writing during the First World War. In 1915, Miles published a vegetarian cookbook with 160 recipes,
Economy in Wartime; Or, Health Without Meat, later retitled
Health Without Meat. A 14th edition was published in 1931. Miles wrote for newspapers including the
Daily Mirror and
Daily Express.
Social reform Miles supported
animal rights,
vegetarianism, and
feminism. The
Humanitarian League held meetings at the Eustace Miles Restaurant. She also promoted food reform through recipes that combined simple vegetarian dishes, such as lentil salad and scrambled eggs on toast, with commercial protein supplements including Emprote.
Death Miles died at her home in
York Mansions, London, on 25 November 1947. == Legacy ==