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An 1810 painting of High Street, Oxford, by J. M. W. Turner
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Each of the five persons discussed in the linked article had at least some connection, great or small, with an English school about an hour outside London\u00a0called\u00a0the University of Oxford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Thanks to Kevin Taylor for calling my attention to this interesting article. \u00a0I\u2019ve spent considerable time with the work of each of these writers, and have written columns on at least two or three of them.<\/p>\n

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