in eighty days? Impossible! In 1873, science fiction author Jules Verne had written a novel about that, but it was just a fantasy. Sixteen years later, the wondered if now it really could be done. They assigned the experiment to their star reporter. If anyone could do it, she could. She? Yes, a young woman of twenty-two: Elizabeth Cochrane, who wrote under the pen name “Nellie Bly.”
