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Hallie Eustace Miles
M.C.A.[1][a]
Miles, c. 1911
Born
Beatrice Dorothy Harriet Killick

(1855-01-12)12 January 1855
Devizes, England
Died25 November 1947(1947-11-25) (aged 92)
London, England
Other names
  • Harriet Beatrice Dorothy Miles
  • Hallie Killick
  • Mrs. Eustace Miles
Occupations
  • Writer
  • restaurateur
  • activist
Notable work
  • Economy in Wartime; Or, Health Without Meat (1915)
  • Untold Tales of War-time London: A Personal Diary (1930)
Spouse
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(m. 1906)​
Signature

Harriet Beatrice Dorothy "Hallie" Miles[3] (born Beatrice Dorothy Harriet Killick;[b] 12 January 1855 – 25 November 1947), who first wrote under the name Hallie Killick and later wrote as Hallie Eustace Miles and Mrs. Eustace Miles, was an English writer, restaurateur, and social reformer. She wrote on home economics, health, religion, social issues, and wartime life. Her works included the published World War I diary Untold Tales of War-time London: A Personal Diary (1930) and the vegetarian cookbook Economy in Wartime; Or, Health Without Meat (1915), later retitled Health Without Meat. Miles also contributed to newspapers including the Daily Mirror and Daily Express. With her husband, the sportsman and writer Eustace Miles, she operated a vegetarian restaurant and health food centre in London.

Biography

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Early and personal life

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Beatrice Dorothy Harriet Killick was born on 12 January 1855 in Devizes.[6][7] Her father was Rev. Richard Henry Killick.[4]

In March 1906, she married Eustace Miles at St Clement Danes, London.[4][8] 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.[4]

Career

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Miles with her husband at their vegetarian restaurant, 1907

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.[9][10][11]

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".[9] For the next thirty years, the couple ran the restaurant, health food stores, and a line of protein and breakfast foods.[9]

Writing

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Advertisement for works by Miles and her husband, 1933

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.[12][13]

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.[14] The diary has been cited in studies of wartime Britain and women's writing during the First World War.[15][16][17]

In 1915, Miles published a vegetarian cookbook with 160 recipes, Economy in Wartime; Or, Health Without Meat, later retitled Health Without Meat.[18] The book drew on her husband's dietetic principles and presented vegetarian meals as economical during wartime meat shortages. Miles addressed women as members of an "Army in the Kitchen" and connected low-meat and meat-free cookery with economy, hygiene, and health. The Mileses also took part in food education campaigns and gave cookery demonstrations. In the 1920s, the book was adapted for peacetime conditions, including unemployment, and promoted vegetarian dishes as cheaper alternatives to meat-based meals. Health Without Meat was praised by Health and Strength for the couple's work in food reform.[19] A 14th edition was published in 1931.[18]

Miles wrote for newspapers including the Daily Mirror and Daily Express.[20]

Social reform

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Miles supported animal rights, vegetarianism, and feminism. The Humanitarian League held meetings at the Eustace Miles Restaurant.[9] With her husband, she distributed free food and clothing to poor people near Cleopatra's Needle, with support from Queen Alexandra.[21][22] 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.[23]

Death

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Miles died at her home in York Mansions, London, on 25 November 1947.[24]

Legacy

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Miles's Economy in War Time was included in the University of Iowa Libraries' 2012 exhibition "Books in the World of Downton Abbey".[25] In 2014, her diary was used in the documentary The Great War: The People's Story, in which Miles was portrayed by Alison Steadman.[26] She was also included in Travis Elborough's list of "top 10 literary diarists".[27]

Publications

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  • From Shadow Into Sunshine: June 24 To October 26, 1902 (London: William Clowes & Sons, 1903)
  • Life's Orchestra (preface by Helen Mathers; London: Anthony Treherne & Co., 1904)
  • Life's Colours (introduction by Helene Vacaresco; London: Eustace Miles, 1906)
  • The Animals' Plea for Sunday Rest (The Celtic Press, 1907)
  • The Cry of the Animals and Birds to Their Human Friends in Their Own Words (introduction by Ernest Bell; foreword by John Strange Winter; London: Drane & Co., 1910)
  • The Ideal Home and Its Problems (London: Methuen & Co., 1911)
  • Story of the Coronation and Passing of King Edward VII (London: W. Clowes, 1911)
  • The New Road[28]
  • The Pilgrimage of the Cross (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1912)
  • Economy in Wartime; Or, Health Without Meat (Methuen & Co., 1915)
  • The Cry of the Desolate (London: E. Miles)
  • Our Kitchen (London: Eustace Miles)
  • Milestones on the Road to All-Round Efficiency & Health (with Eustace Miles; London: Eustace Miles, 1922–1927)
  • Untold Tales of War-time London: A Personal Diary (London: Cecil Palmer, 1930)

See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Member of the Cookery Association.[2]
  2. ↑ She also used Dorothy as her first name.[4][5] Her middle name was variously spelled as Harriet, Harriett, and Harriette.

References

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  1. ↑ "Health Without Meat by Hallie Eustace Miles, M.C.A." Biblio IE. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Haycraft, Frank W. (1948). The Degrees and Hoods of the World's Universities and Colleges. Cheshunt Press. p. 106 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ "Deaths Dec 1947: Miles, Harriet B.D." FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Colloms, Marianne; Weindling, Dick (25 June 2014). "West Hampstead's tennis world champion (and food fanatic)". West Hampstead Life. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
  5. ↑ "Marriages Mar 1906". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "Ki - New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors". New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "Births Mar 1855: Killick, Beatrice Dorothy Harriet". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
  8. ↑ Elborough, Travis; Rennison, Nick (3 October 2013). A London Year: 365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters. Frances Lincoln. p. 555. ISBN 978-1-78131-144-8 – via Google Books.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Ina (7 October 2010). "Modern Urban Lifestyles, Degeneration, and the Male Body". Managing the Body. Oxford University Press. pp. 17–61. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280520.003.0002. ISBN 978-0-19-928052-0.
  10. ↑ Walker, Michael (23 October 2011). "WSPU Suffragettes Restaurant - Eustace Miles - Chandos Street". Hayes Peoples History. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  11. ↑ Waller, Sharon Biggs (21 November 2013). "Dining Suffragette Style". Corsets, Cutlasses, & Candlesticks. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  12. ↑ Stewart, Basil (1917). "Killick, Hallie". The Literary Year Book Vol. Vol. XXI. p. 169 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ↑ "Killick, Hallie". Who Was Who in Literature: 1906-1934. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1979. p. 634. ISBN 978-0-8103-0402-4 – via Internet Archive.
  14. ↑ Matthews, William (28 April 2023). British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published or Written before 1951. University of California Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-520-31522-8 – via Google Books.
  15. ↑ Pennell, Catriona (March 2012). A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland. OUP Oxford. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-19-959058-2 – via Google Books.
  16. ↑ Ouditt, Sharon (22 January 2002). Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography. Routledge. pp. 94–95. ISBN 978-1-134-94602-0 – via Google Books.
  17. ↑ Walker, Julian (28 December 2017). Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 380. ISBN 978-1-350-01274-5 – via Google Books.
  18. 1 2 Aoyagi, Akiko; Shurtleff, William (7 March 2022). "2974. Gillmore, Maria McIlvaine". History of Vegetarianism and Veganism Worldwide (1430 BCE to 1969): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook. Soyinfo Center. p. 812. ISBN 978-1-948436-73-1 – via Google Books.
  19. ↑ Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Ina (7 October 2010). "The Modern Female Body as a Mass Phenomenon". Managing the Body. Oxford University Press. pp. 236–278. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280520.003.0007. ISBN 978-0-19-928052-0.
  20. ↑ "Your results for: "by hallie eustace miles"". British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  21. ↑ Kimber, Gerri (31 March 2022). "Dr Victor Sorapure (1874–1933)". In Davison, Claire (ed.). The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 2. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 632–636. doi:10.1515/9781399504027-048. ISBN 978-1-3995-0402-7. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  22. ↑ Bowden, Bill; Partridge, Michael (2014). "Eustace Hamilton Miles" (PDF). The Old Eastbournian: 28.
  23. ↑ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "Miles, Eustace Hamilton". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50457. Retrieved 7 April 2025. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  24. ↑ "Miles". The Daily Telegraph. 27 November 1947. p. 12. Retrieved 25 March 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ↑ Prickman, Greg (24 January 2012). "Books in the World of Downton Abbey". University of Iowa Libraries. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  26. ↑ "The Great War: The People's Story". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  27. ↑ Elborough, Travis (1 January 2014). "Travis Elborough's top 10 literary diarists". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
  28. ↑ Miles, Hallie Eustace (1911). "By the Same Author". The Ideal Home and Its Problems. London: Methuen & Co.
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