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The formulation of their taste(s) is one that has been the subject of much discussion. Their early art history training was unremarkable and typical of monied young ladies of the period – their schooling focused on cultural pursuits and they undertook several educational trips abroad. Unusually though, Margaret attended a series of art history lectures in Dresden in 1907 from which her notes survive, yet these betray an as yet undeveloped critical faculty - (“Adriaen Brower – a genius but takes always coarse types”). Educated as they were within such a culturally constructed framework of taste and value, there is no doubt that they were guided initially in what to look at and why it was ‘good’, bringing to mind E. M. Forster’s 1908 description, in A Room with a View, of Lucy Honeychurch abandoned in Santa Croce, without Baedeker:
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