Nellie Bly, a biographical sketch. 1931.

Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922

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"Nellie Bly" was the pseudonym used by Elizabeth Jane Cochran (1864-1922) during her pioneering career as an investigative reporter. Writing for the New York World, the daring Bly sought to expose the ills of society, going so far as having herself committed to an insane asylum to view first-hand the treatment of the mentally ill. She is perhaps best known for her reporting as she traveled around the globe to challenge the record of the fictional Phileas T. Fogg from Jules Verne's Around the Wor...

Ravitch, Irene.

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