Desperate Romantics(2009)
Overview
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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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William Holman Hunt
John Ruskin
John Millais
Fred Walters
Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
Lizzie Siddal
Annie Miller
Margaret
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