Desperate Romantics 2009

Synopsis

Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.

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Cast

• Aidan Turner Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Rafe Spall William Holman Hunt
• Tom Hollander John Ruskin
• Samuel Barnett John Millais
• Sam Crane Fred Walters
• Zoë Tapper Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
• Amy Manson Lizzie Siddal
• Jennie Jacques Annie Miller
• Josie Farmiloe Charlotte Siddal
• Maimie McCoy Margaret

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