Reed Gochberg

 

Reed Gochberg teaches History and Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America.

The fact that Osgood’s collection survives intact—or at all—is notable and perhaps inseparable from her lifelong friendship with a famous writer.

In 19th-Century New England, This Amateur Geologist Created Her Own Cabinet of Curiosities

A friend of Henry David Thoreau, Ellen Sewall Osgood's pursuit of her scientific passion illuminates the limits and possibilities placed on the era's women

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