Round the World with

Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly, originally known as Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1867-1922), was a famous American journalist. Nellies life had begun in a place known as Cochran's Mill, Pennsylvania. Known for her talent in news reporting, she was on the editorial staffs of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, the New York World, and the New York Journal at various times. In 1888, she spent ten days posing as a patient in the insane asylum on Blackwell's Island (which is now Roosevelt Island), New York City. She had gone there to gather information about the treatment of the inmates. She recorded her findings in the book Ten Days in a Madhouse. In 1889, Bly made a well-publicized trip around the world by train and steamboat in an attempt to make the journey in less time than the fictional character Phileas Fogg in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, by the French writer Jules Verne. Bly completed her trip in the record time of 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and she wrote her adventures in Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-two Days.

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