Early Life
Osburn was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England; her father was Egyptologist William Osburn. She was educated at home by a mistress and learned several languages. She traveled to the Middle East in 1857 to visit a cousin, while there she enjoyed training horses.
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“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
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