4:14 The subject of her study is Charles Finger, who started life as an Englishman, a student at the Regent Street Polytechnic Institute in London. There he reveled in the Literary Society, which discussed contemporary writing, paying special attention to writers such as Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Those two writers were known to be gay, but then, and later, Finger and his cohorts steadily see gayness in many other writers: William Morris. Jack London, Sir Richard Burton, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Henry David Thoreau, Richard Halliburton, the painter Grant Wood and many, many others were thought to be gay, bisexual, or would like to be.