Hallie Eustace Miles

Harriet Beatrice Dorothy "Hallie" Miles (née Beatrice Dorothy Harriet Killick; published as Hallie Killick, Hallie Eustace Miles, and Mrs. Eustace Miles; 12 January 1855 – 25 November 1947) was an English writer, journalist, social reformer, philanthropist, and, with her husband Eustace Miles, a restaurateur operating a popular vegetarian restaurant in London. The Eustace Miles Restaurant was opened in 1906 on Chandos Street. Hallie Eustace Miles is famous for her World War I diary, Untold Tales of War-time London: A Personal Diary, published in 1930 in London by Cecil Palmer.

Quotes

• Besides the darkness of the night, many minor shadows cross our paths, making the hues of Life obscure. These are not always caused by sorrow. There are clouds brought by misunderstanding, sharp words and thoughtless speeches. Want of thought throws many shadows.
  • Life's Colours. London: Eustace Miles. 1906. p. 26.  (150 pages)

• Many argue that the meat business is inhumane, that meat is expensive, that it contains uric acid, that it may be tubercular, and so on. All this is too true; but I do not think that the scientific case for meat is sufficiently explained, or given its due as a body-builder and repairer, as a stimulant and appetizer, which is why, when most people go without it, they must have a substitute.
  • Economy in War Time: Or, Health Without Meat (2nd ed.). Methuen & Company, Ltd. 1915. pp. 14–15.  (133 pages; 160 recipes; 1st published in 1915)

Quotes about Hallie Eustace Miles

• Hallie Eustace Miles ...
  The daughter of the rector of St Clement Danes, Hallie Killick married the sportsman and writer Eustace Hamilton Miles in 1906. Together with her husband, she ran a vegetarian restaurant and pioneering health food centre, and counted AC Benson, among other literary luminaries, as customers and friends. As the centenary of the first world war approaches, her diary of their life during the first Blitz, originally published in 1930, is definitely worth seeking out.
  • Travis Elborough, (1 January 2014) "Travis Elborough's top 10 literary diarists. As we begin 2014 and many of us resolve to keep a diary, here are 10 of the best of the form for inspiration". The Guardian.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Hallie Eustace Miles on Wikipedia