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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.
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Seasons
- Miniseries — 6 episodes (July 21, 2009)
Cast
- Aidan Turner as Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Rafe Spall as William Holman Hunt
- Tom Hollander as John Ruskin
- Samuel Barnett as John Millais
- Sam Crane as Fred Walters
- Zoë Tapper as Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
- Amy Manson as Lizzie Siddal
- Jennie Jacques as Annie Miller
- Josie Farmiloe as Charlotte Siddal
- Maimie McCoy as Margaret
- Phil Davis as Mr. Stone
- Mark Heap as Charles Dickens
Details
- First aired
- July 21, 2009
- Episodes
- 6
- Genres
- Drama
- Network
- BBC Two
- Status
- Ended
- TMDB score
- 7.4 / 10 from 23 votes
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