Florence Bravo

James Manby Gully had been widowed, then separated from a second wife, and held liberal views on sex. When he met Florence Ricardo , who was forty years his junior, he had long been well-known...

They included Theodosia, Lady Ivie (who in 1686 was tried for property fraud involving land east of London ripe for development); Jenny Diver (who was hanged for picking pockets in 1741);

She describes how Tennyson, suffering from depression or nervous complaints, turned to Dr James Manby Gully and his celebrated Malvern water cure. She ranks Gully's medical abilities and his record of healing very highly. She...