FREE: Dr. Gully's Story - Elizabeth Jenkins

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Title: Dr. Gully's Story
Author: Elizabeth Jenkins
Genre: Historical Romance (based on actual story)
Format: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Based on the actual case of a shocking liaison between an eminent physician and a young married woman that scandalized London in the 1870s, Dr.Gully's story is a novel that richly evokes this tempestuous and tragic love affair. With an unerring eye for the fine nuances of character and scene, Miss Jenkins portrays the manners and mores of an entire era, skillfully, sensitively exploring the grand passions and private torments that lay concealed behind the decorous facade of Victorian life. Dr. Gully, the respected physician to Tennyson, Carlyle, and numerous distinguished patients, a doctor widely renowned for his avant-garde and original methods, undertakes the treatment of Florence Ricardo, a beautiful woman of twenty five who has been reduced to near hysteria by her husband's unpredictable fits of depression and brutality.