Desperate Romantics

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.

Cast & Crew

Aidan TurnerDante Gabriel Rossetti

Rafe SpallWilliam Holman Hunt

Tom HollanderJohn Ruskin

Samuel BarnettJohn Millais

Sam CraneFred Walters

Zoë TapperEffie Ruskin/ Effie Millais

Amy MansonLizzie Siddal

Jennie JacquesAnnie Miller

Josie FarmiloeCharlotte Siddal

Maimie McCoyMargaret

Phil DavisMr. Stone

Mark HeapCharles Dickens

Seasons

Episodes (6)

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