Desperate Romantics

Drama20096 episodes1 seasonMiniseries

First aired: 2009-07-21

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.

Casting

  • Rafe Spall
    William Holman Hunt
  • Tom Hollander
    John Ruskin
  • Aidan Turner
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Jennie Jacques
    Annie Miller
  • Maimie McCoy
    Margaret
  • Mark Heap
    Charles Dickens
  • Phil Davis
    Mr. Stone
  • Amy Manson
    Lizzie Siddal
  • Sam Crane
    Fred Walters
  • Zoë Tapper
    Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais