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Apr 2, 2014 · Photo: Apic/Getty Images. (1864-1922) Who Was Nellie Bly? Journalist Nellie Bly began writing for the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1885. Two years later, Bly moved to New York City and...
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked ...
Nellie Bly. 1864-1922. By: Arlisha R. Norwood, NWHM Fellow; Updated by: Mariana Brandman, NWHM Predoctoral Fellow in Women’s History | 2020-2022. Nellie Bly became a star journalist by going undercover as a patient at a New York City mental health asylum in 1887 and exposing its terrible conditions in the New York World.
Life Story: Elizabeth Cochrane, aka Nellie Bly (1864-1922) World-Traveling Journalist and Muckraker The story of an investigative journalist who used her career to shed light on the horrors of urban life and break gender stereotypes.
May 1, 2024 · Nellie Bly was an American journalist whose around-the-world race against a fictional record brought her world renown. Elizabeth Cochran (she later added a final “e” to Cochran) received scant formal schooling. She began her career in 1885 in her native Pennsylvania as a reporter for the Pittsburgh.
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- Why is Nellie Bly important?Nellie Bly was the most famous American woman reporter of the 19th century. Her investigation of conditions at an insane asylum sparked outrage, le...
- Was Nellie Bly married?Nellie Bly married manufacturer Robert Seaman in 1895. Seaman died in 1904, and Bly took over his firm, the Iron Clad Manufacturing Company. After...
- Why did Nellie Bly change her name?When Elizabeth Cochran began in journalism in 1885, it was considered inappropriate for a woman to write under her own name. Cochran’s editor chose...
Nov 8, 2022 · Journalist Nellie Bly may be best known for her well-documented 72-day trip around the globe in 1890, inspired by the Jules Verne novel Around the World in 80 Days. She was also a pioneer in the field of investigative journalism, a suffrage advocate, and later, an inventor.
Nellie Bly, American journalist who made a record-breaking trip around the world, circa 1890. World Travelling Journalist Nellie Bly, or Elizabeth Cochran Thelma Todd, black wig and all, as Nellie Bly in Her Man, which Tay Garnett is directing for Pathe with Helen Twelvetrees in the leading feminine...
