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Nellie Bly - Wikipedia
21 Nov 2024 at 9:16am
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 undercover to ...

Nellie Bly - Story, Timeline & Facts - Biography
20 Nov 2024 at 2:03pm
Nellie Bly was known for her pioneering journalism, including her 1887 exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell's Island in New York City and her report of her 72-day trip...

Nellie Bly | Biography & Around the World in Seventy-two Days - Britannica
20 Nov 2024 at 12:37pm
Nellie Bly (born May 5, 1864, Cochran?s Mills, Pennsylvania, U.S.?died January 27, 1922, New York, New York) was an American journalist whose around-the-world race against a fictional record brought her world renown. Bly was also known for a number of exposés.

Nellie Bly - National Women's History Museum
19 Nov 2024 at 1:26am
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. Her reporting not only raised awareness about mental health treatment and led to improvements in institutional conditions, it also ushered in an age of investigative ...

How Nellie Bly went undercover to expose abuse of the mentally ill - PBS
20 Nov 2024 at 12:52pm
Nellie Bly's investigative work became a classic in the annals of psychiatry and a cogent warning against inhumane treatment of the mentally ill.

Life Story: Nellie Bly - Women & the American Story
19 Nov 2024 at 11:34am
Nellie Bly was a world-traveling investigative journalist who used her career to shed light on the horrors of urban life and break gender stereotypes.

Inside Nellie Bly?s 10 Days in a Madhouse - Biography
20 Nov 2024 at 1:20pm
In 1887, 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly had herself committed to a New York City asylum to expose the horrific conditions for 19th-century mental patients. Born Elizabeth Cochran in May...

?Behind Asylum Bars:? Nellie Bly Reporting from Blackwell?s Island.
20 Nov 2024 at 10:24pm
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 Online ? A Resource Website
21 Nov 2024 at 5:05am
In 1887, reporter Nellie Bly joined the staff of Joseph Pulitzer?s New York newspaper The World with an exposé that set the city on fire. Her articles detailing the Dickensian conditions and suffering of patients at the insane asylum on Blackwell?s Island would shock and outrage readers, propelling massive change in the care of the ...

Nellie Bly: The Journalist Who Pretended To Be Insane To Get Into A ...
21 Nov 2024 at 12:04am
The story of Nellie Bly, the pen name of a young reporter named Elizabeth Cochran, has been told and retold ever since she burst onto the scene in 1887. And much of this has to do with her firsthand account of life in an insane asylum.



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