Portal:University of Oxford/Selected quotation/31

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If the Victorians can be said to have rampaged, they did so to greatest effect in the few acres of Oxford beside and immediately south of the University parks... There is Keble College, red brick sprawling so copiously that one feels the stuff must have got out of control, unleashing some dark force upon a helpless architect. Or the houses that survive as tenacious Gothic islands amid the concrete cliffs of the new University Departments.

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— Penelope Lively, from The House in Norham Gardens

Source

Quoted in Evans, G. R. (2010). The University of Oxford – A New History. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 7. ISBN 9781848851146.