#nellie bly

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Nellie Bly (1864-1922), American journalist, writer, industrialist, inventor and charity worker

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, known by her pen name Nellie Bly, is best known for a record-breaking 1889 trip around the world in 72 days (in emulation of Jules Verne’s fictional character Phileas Fogg) and an 1887 exposé in which she faked insanity to reveal conditions in the New York women’s mental institution at Blackwell’s Island.

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Nellie Bly: I'm going to beat Phileas Fogg's time around the world in 80 days! I can't afford any variables or delays! A single weather delay, illness, or missed connection could mean a failure of this entire endeavor!

Also Nellie Bly, as soon as she hits Singapore: Well, I can't not buy a monkey.

[archivedotorgfan]

board game box for round the world with nellie bly. board game based on her 1890 piece 'around the world in 72 days.'

[salembehindbars]

My curious mind with uninterrupted streams of thinking wants to pull a Nellie Bly, but instead of infiltrating and investigating an asylum I want to infiltrate and investigate the local culty church.

[nnasstuff]

I'm reading Nellie Bly's Around the world in 72 days and the 4th chapter is basically just her crushing on mrs. Verne and almost kissing her on the lips

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Portrait of Nellie Bly c. 1890

"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. In 1887, under the name Nellie Brown, she had herself committed to an asylum in New York for ten days so she could expose the horrible conditions there. Her report on the asylum, and later reports, inspired change and she helped to pave the way for women in journalism. Her work inspired other “girl stunt reporters” and through their work they redefined journalism for the modern age" (More)

Photo by H.L. Meyers

[ladywatereton]

June 7th: National Press Freedom Day!

(in Brazil🇧🇷)

✨ Integrity, determination and passion for the truth are essential qualities for any journalist, regardless of gender. And whether in real life or fiction, women play a crucial role in the search and dissemination of truth.

✨ Throughout history, women have been driving forces in newsrooms, investigative reports and opinion columns, challenging social norms, facing threats and attempts to silence them. They continue to fight for a free and fair press, essential for democracy and to ensure that society remains informed.

✨ On this National Press Freedom Day, we celebrate not only the right to information, but also the invaluable contribution of women who, with their voice and courage, shape journalism and defend the truth in all its forms.

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New York World reporter Nellie Bly became a pioneer of undercover investigative journalism when she feigned insanity to expose squalid conditions and brutal mistreatment of inmates at the Woman's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island in New York City in 1887.

[waywardvictorianconfessions]

I just finished reading Ten Days In a Mad-House by Nellie Bly and I think EA took a little more than a little inspiration from it.

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Today in History: November 14

Not only is today National Pickle Day, but on this day in 1889, journalist Nellie Bly (née Elizabeth Cochran) embarked on an exciting venture: her goal was to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completed the trip in 72 days, in January of 1890. Bly was the first person to attempt the journey as laid out in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

Bly was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker. She's known not least as a pioneer of investigative journalism: she went undercover at a mental hospital to report on patient treatment. The exposés she published in 1887 were later published as a book, Ten Days in a Mad-House, which is now in the public domain and available through Project Gutenberg.

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The fact I had to find out about this extraordinary woman, Elizabeth Jane Cochrane aka Nellie Bly, because I chose a random movie to watch on Hulu.

This amazing woman went undercover at a woman's asylum (Blackwell's island) and ended up exposing them and getting them shut down for their unfair and abusive treatment of their "patients" (prisoners would be a much better word).

Today, Blackwell's is called Roosevelt Island and has been transformed into a residential neighborhood with over 12,000 people.

Her expose also led to a global reformation of mental health care.

She was finally inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1998, after passing away in 1922 at the age of 57.

She also wrote about the war in Europe as well as the fight for women's rights.

An absolutely amazing woman that I feel needs more recognition and should be taught about in schools.

[blackboxpodcast]

Fun fact! Today, January 25th, marks 133 years since Nellie Bly, our spaceship's namesake, completed her journey around the world! She made it in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds.

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Reluctant Reader Wednesday: Ten Days in a Mad-House (Adapted From the Work of Nellie Bly) by Brad Ricca & Courtney Sieh 

In 1887, a woman who used the pen name of Nellie Bly broke into the competitive world of New York journalism by getting an exclusive story. Her assignment was to go undercover in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell Island (known today as Roosevelt Island). But in order to complete this assignment, she would have to pretend to be insane, and fool enough people in authority until she was committed to the asylum. And then she had to watch, and wait, and hope that her new employer would be able to rescue her before it was too late. 

After her experience was over, Nellie Bly wrote articles about the entire experience, including descriptions of the horrible conditions she saw in the asylum. Her reporting was compiled under the title Ten Days in a Mad-House, and this book is a graphic-format adaptation of her work.

Give this book to adults and teens who are interested in women’s history, New York City history, journalism, and mental health. Also, this book would be a great choice for readers who already enjoyed biographical books like Ten Days a Madwoman by Deborah Noyes, and who wanted to take a deeper dive into everything that happened before, during, and after those ten days!

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"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. I have wondered if behind those sealed lips there were dreams we ken not of, or if it was all blank?"

Ten Days in a Mad-House, Nellie Bly

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Nellie Bly Gallery, Jerome, AZ