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Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly (1864-1922) was an American investigative journalist. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was raised in a family of Irish immigrants...visualizza altroNellie Bly (1864-1922) was an American investigative journalist. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was raised in a family of Irish immigrants. In 1879, she attended Indiana Normal School for a year before returning to Pittsburgh, where she began writing anonymously for the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Impressed by her work, the newspaper’s editor offered her a full-time job. Writing under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, she produced a series of groundbreaking investigative pieces on women factory workers before traveling to Mexico as a foreign correspondent, which led her to report on the arrest of a prominent Mexican journalist and dissident. Returning to America under threat of arrest, she soon left the Pittsburgh Dispatch to undertake a dangerous investigative assignment for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World on the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. After feigning a bout of psychosis in order to get admitted, she spent ten days at the asylum witnessing widespread abuse and neglect. Her two-part series in the New York World later became the book Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887), earning Bly her reputation as a pioneering reporter and leading to widespread reform. The following year, Bly took an assignment aimed at recreating the journey described in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Boarding a steamer in Hoboken, she began a seventy-two day trip around the globe, setting off a popular trend that would be emulated by countless adventurers over the next several decades. After publishing her book on the journey, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890), Bly married manufacturer Robert Seaman, whose death in 1904 left Bly in charge of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co. Despite Bly’s best efforts as a manager and inventor, her tenure ultimately resulted in the company’s bankruptcy. In the final years of her life, she continued working as a reporter covering World War I and the women’s suffrage movement, cementing her legacy as a groundbreaking and ambitious figure in American journalism.visualizza meno
Libri di Nellie Bly
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days Ten Days in a Mad-House Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioniNellie Bly's World:1889-1890: Nellie Bly's World, #2 Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioni3 Books To Know Travel Literature Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioniInto The Madhouse: The Complete Reporting Surrounding Nellie Bly's Expose of the Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioni10 Days in a Madhouse Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5Ten Days in a Mad-House Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioni10 Days in a Madhouse Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle3/5The Complete Works of Nellie Bly Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioniTen Days in a Mad-House: Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioniThe Mystery Of Central Park: The Lost Novels Of Nellie Bly, #1 Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioni
Audiolibri di Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a Mad-House Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5Alta Lynn, M.D.: The Romance Of Two Girls Who Married For Fun Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioniTen Days in a Mad-House Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5Bly vs Bisland: Beating Phileas Fogg in a Race Around The World Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioniAround the World in Seventy-Two Days Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle4/5Twins And Rivals: The Snare of Riches and the Spell of Love Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioniEva The Adventuress: A Romance of a Blighted Life Valutazione: 0 su 5 stelle0 valutazioni