In conjunction with a major series for BBC2, this work presents the scandalous saga of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England they outraged their contemporaries with their loves, jealousies and betrayals, and they stunned society when their complex moral choices led to madness and suicide, or when their permissive experiments ended in addiction and death The saga is brought to life through the vivid letters and diaries kept by the group and the accounts written by their contemporaries These real-life stories shed new light on the greatest nineteenth-century British art