Desperate Romantics
2009•18+•1 Seasons•6 Episodes•7.4•Ended
Drama
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.
Network
BBC Two
Origin
GB
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
Phil Davis
Mr. Stone
Mark Heap
Charles Dickens
Rebecca Davies
Fanny Cornforth
Dyfrig Morris
William Morris
Peter Sandys-Clarke
Edward Burne-Jones
Episodes
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