Background
Nellie was born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, United States on May 5, 1867.
(By the age of 16, Nellie Bly was writing for a major news...)
By the age of 16, Nellie Bly was writing for a major newspaper; by 21 she was living in Mexico as a foreign correspondent; and before she was 30 she had travelled around the world. Bly was a remarkable woman who was not afraid to write about issues nobody else seemed to care about. In Blys best known work, she spent 10 days as a patient in an insane asylum. All these tales and more are collected in this large anthology. Note: The book includes Blys best known works, but not all of her articles. The following is included: 10 Days in a Madhouse Around the World In Seventy-Two Days Six Months In Mexico Trying to be Servant Nellie Bly as a White Slave This book is annotated with a short biography on Nellie Bly.
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Nellie was born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, United States on May 5, 1867.
Nellie took her pen name from Stephen Foster's song Nelly Bly when she began writing on divorce and the plight of women and children in factories in the Pittsburgh Dispatch. In 1887 she feigned insanity, had herself committed to the Blackwell's Island asylum, and wrote the inside story of conditions there. As a result of her exposé published in the New York World, she became famous overnight. She next drew public attention by her trip around the world to surpass the record of Jules Verne's imaginary hero Phineas Fogg. Starting out on November 14, 1889, she outdid Fogg's time by setting the record of 72 days, 6 hours, and 11 minutes. In 1895 she married Robert Seaman. After his death in 1904 she managed his manufacturing concern but went bankrupt in 1913. In 1914 Bly visited Europe where eventually she was interned until the end of World War I. In 1919 she joined the staff of the New York Evening Journal, conducting a column for placement of destitute children. Her last major work was coverage of a Sing Sing execution which resulted in articles against capital punishment. She died on January 27, 1922, in New York City.
(By the age of 16, Nellie Bly was writing for a major news...)
(Six Months in MexicoBy Nellie Bly)
In 1895 Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman. Bly was 31 and Seaman was 73 when they married.