The Love School is a BBC television drama miniseries originally broadcast from 22 January to 26 February 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The series was written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman, and John Prebble, and directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale.
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Air Date: 1975-01-22
In 1848, social unrest abounds. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a secret group of young artists, forms in order to ta...
Air Date: 1975-01-29
Art critic John Ruskin and his wife Effie travel to Scotland with John Everett Millais, a PRB leader. Millais falls i...
Air Date: 1975-02-05
Millais has married Effie after the annulment of her first marriage. William Holman Hunt and Millais both become succ...
Air Date: 1975-02-12
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's life and relationships become complicated, especially after the tragic death of his wife Liz...
Air Date: 1975-02-19
Rossetti acquires a follower in William Morris but his life is troubled by drug addiction, and he becomes increasingl...
Air Date: 1975-02-26
Pre-Raphaelitism begins to disintegrate when Morris adopts a new ideal in socialism.