Desperate Romantics
2009
7.5
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

Maimie McCoy
Margaret

Phil Davis
Mr. Stone

Mark Heap
Charles Dickens

Rebecca Davies
Fanny Cornforth

Peter Sandys-Clarke
Edward Burne-Jones

Poppy Lee Friar
Rose La Touche