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The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalistBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first and best female journalists in America and quickly became a national phenomenon in the late 1800s, with a board game based on her adventures and merchandise inspired by the clothes she wore. Bly gained fame for being the first "girl stunt reporter," writing stories that no one at the time thought a woman could or should write, including an expos of patient treatment at an insane asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world without a chaperone. This volume, the only printed and edited collection of Bly's writings, includes her best known works - Ten Days in a Mad-House, Six Months in Mexico, and Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - as well as many lesser known pieces that capture the breadth of her career from her fierce opinion pieces to her remarkable World War I reporting.
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Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922) , known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker 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 faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by H. J. Myers, photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
