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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 ...
The portrait of Nellie Bly as a young woman is cast in silver bronze. The other faces, cast in bronze and portrayed in broken sections, include an Asian-American woman, an African-American woman, a young girl, and an older LGBTQ woman. These women are not specific people from Bly's life, but are inspired by women in the artist's life. [10]
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]
Nellie Bly (1887). Ten Days in a Mad-House. New York: Norman L. Munro. Published with "Miscellaneous Sketches: Trying to be a Servant", and "Nellie Bly as a White Slave". Ten Days in a Mad-House at Project Gutenberg; Audio book at Project Gutenberg; Ten Days in a Madhouse public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Ten Days in a Mad-House at IMDb
Game board illustrating journalist Nellie Bly's circumnavigation of the globe (1889–1890), in the New York World, 26 January 1890. Round the World with Nellie Bly game board. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly.
Gallipolis, on the southern border with West Virginia, is Ohio's warmest city. It has an annual average high of 69 degrees and holds the record high of 113 degrees, set in 1934.
From tricky brain teasers to classic word games, many of us love a good challenge.So, it's no surprise that a viral riddle—known as the "30 Cows and 28 Chickens" riddle—is going around right ...
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.