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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 for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within ...
Nellie Bly; Coralie Blythe; George Boldt; Robert W. Bonynge; Emma Booth, involved with the Salvation Army; Gail Borden; Bostwick family; Anne Lynch Botta; William V. Brady, Mayor of New York City; Josephine Brandell; Boris Brasol; Herbert Brenon; Benjamin Bristow; Addison Brown; Henry Bruckner, Bronx Borough President; Charles Waldron Buckley
The epilogue reveals that Nellie's work led to sweeping mental health reform, including the closing of the Women's Lunatic Asylum. Nellie continued to work as a journalist until her death in 1922. In 1998, Nellie was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame under her actual name, Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, as "Nellie Bly" is a pen name. [2]
The Girl Puzzle Monument honoring activist and journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, pen name Nellie Bly (1864-1922), is a public sculptural installation by American artist Amanda Matthews, CEO/Partner of Prometheus Art Bronze Foundry and Metal Fabrication.
Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly.It was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World.Bly later compiled the articles into a book, being published by Norman Munro in New York City in 1887.
Publicity photo for Bly's "Around the World" series A photograph of Barnes being forcibly fed. In 1887, Nellie Bly spent ten days living in Blackwell's Island, an institution housing people with mental illness, and wrote for the World an exposé, Inside the Madhouse, which documented the abuse of patients.
Bethany Joy Lenz is looking back at the “rude awakening” she experienced after leaving a small, ultra-Christian cult in 2012.. During an appearance on the Rooted Recovery Stories with Patrick ...
Robert Livingston Seaman (1822 – March 11, 1904) was an American industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly).