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    Nellie Bly's World:1889-1890: Nellie Bly's World, #2
    Nellie Bly's World:1887-1888: Nellie Bly's World, #1
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    Nellie Bly's World Series

    By Nellie Bly and David Blixt

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    About this series

    From the bestselling author of TEN DAYS IN A MAD-HOUSE - Nellie Bly's complete articles, collected for the first time ever!

    "When a charming young lady comes into your office and smilingly announces that she wants to ask you a few questions regarding the possibility of improving New York's moral tone, don't stop to parley. Just say: 'Excuse me, Nellie Bly,' and shin down the fire-escape."—Puck Magazine

    Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is best remembered for two "stunts": her undercover expose of the Blackwell's Island insane asylum, and her race around the world to beat the record set in Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days. Yet those events do not begin to grasp the scope of her career as a reporter. 

    Between 1885 and 1922, Nellie Bly penned hundreds of stories on a variety of topics. Reporting for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, she interviewed presidential candidates like Belva Lockwood and convicted criminals like Eva Hamilton, sports heroes like boxer John Sullivan and wrestler William Muldoon, inspirational icons like Helen Keller and Susan B. Anthony, and so many more. One week would find her undercover to expose a swindling lobbyist, the next taking up a new profession as an actress, and the next reporting on a strike. 

    Perhaps never before has a reporter had such a wide-ranging, adventurous career! Yet until now only a handful of her articles have been available to the public. Compiled by author David Blixt ("What Girls Are Good For"), Nellie Bly's World collects all of Bly's reporting during her years at the New York World. 

    Volume 2 begins with her retelling of the insane asylum in "Among The Mad," and ends with her race around the globe in 72 days. But that's hardly all! Among the 35 articles included in this collection are: 

    With the Prison Matrons
    The Veiled Prophetess
    Working Girls, Beware!
    Shadowed by a Detective
    Nellie Bly at West Point
    Women and Crime
    Nellie Bly Learns to Swim
    Is Astrology a Science?
    Nellie Bly Buys a Baby
    Nellie Bly's Many Doubles
    Nellie Bly's 700 Doctors
    From New York to Amiens

    Explore the full power of Bly's Blackwing pencil at the beginning of her ascent to becoming the most famous woman in America!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSordelet Ink
    Release dateJan 18, 2021
    Nellie Bly's World:1889-1890: Nellie Bly's World, #2
    Nellie Bly's World:1887-1888: Nellie Bly's World, #1

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      Nellie Bly's World:1887-1888: Nellie Bly's World, #1
      Nellie Bly's World:1887-1888: Nellie Bly's World, #1

      Nellie Bly's World:1887-1888: Nellie Bly's World, #1

      Nellie Bly
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      From the bestselling author of TEN DAYS IN A MAD HOUSE - Nellie Bly's complete articles, collected for the first time ever! Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is best remembered for two "stunts": her undercover expose of the Blackwell's Island insane asylum, and her race around the world to beat the fictional record set in Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days.  Yet those events do not even begin to grasp the scope of her career as a reporter. Between 1885 and 1922, Nellie Bly penned hundreds of stories on a variety of topics. Reporting for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, she interviewed presidential candidates and convicted criminals, sports heroes like boxer John Sullivan and wrestler William Muldoon, inspirational icons like Helen Keller and Susan B. Anthony, and many more. One week would find her undercover to expose a swindling lobbyist, the next taking up a new profession as an actress, and the next reporting on a strike.  Perhaps never before has a reporter had such a wide-ranging, adventurous career! Yet only a handful of her articles have been available to the public - until now! Compiled by author David Blixt ("What Girls Are Good For"), Nellie Bly's World collects all of Bly's reporting during her years at the New York World.  Volume 1 begins with her cannon-blast debut, exposing over the course of three articles the events of her imprisonment in the Blackwell's Island insane asylum. But that's hardly all! Among the 33 articles included in this collection are:  What Becomes of Babies The Girls Who Make Boxes Wanted—A Few Husbands Nellie Bly on the Stage Nellie Bly as a Mesmerist The King of the Lobby How to be Cured by Faith Girls of the Wild West Hangman Joe at Home Our First Ladies Explore the full power of Bly's Blackwing pencil at the beginning of her ascent to becoming the most famous woman in America!

      From the bestselling author of TEN DAYS IN A MAD HOUSE - Nellie Bly's complete articles, collected for the first time ever! Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is best remembered for two "stunts": her undercover expose of the Blackwell's Island insane asylum, and her race around the world to beat the fictional record set in Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days.  Yet those events do not even begin to grasp the scope of her career as a reporter. Between 1885 and 1922, Nellie Bly penned hundreds of stories on a variety of topics. Reporting for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, she interviewed presidential candidates and convicted criminals, sports heroes like boxer John Sullivan and wrestler William Muldoon, inspirational icons like Helen Keller and Susan B. Anthony, and many more. One week would find her undercover to expose a swindling lobbyist, the next taking up a new profession as an actress, and the next reporting on a strike.  Perhaps never before has a reporter had such a wide-ranging, adventurous career! Yet only a handful of her articles have been available to the public - until now! Compiled by author David Blixt ("What Girls Are Good For"), Nellie Bly's World collects all of Bly's reporting during her years at the New York World.  Volume 1 begins with her cannon-blast debut, exposing over the course of three articles the events of her imprisonment in the Blackwell's Island insane asylum. But that's hardly all! Among the 33 articles included in this collection are:  What Becomes of Babies The Girls Who Make Boxes Wanted—A Few Husbands Nellie Bly on the Stage Nellie Bly as a Mesmerist The King of the Lobby How to be Cured by Faith Girls of the Wild West Hangman Joe at Home Our First Ladies Explore the full power of Bly's Blackwing pencil at the beginning of her ascent to becoming the most famous woman in America!

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      Nellie Bly's World:1889-1890: Nellie Bly's World, #2
      Nellie Bly's World:1889-1890: Nellie Bly's World, #2

      Nellie Bly's World:1889-1890: Nellie Bly's World, #2

      Nellie Bly
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      From the bestselling author of TEN DAYS IN A MAD-HOUSE - Nellie Bly's complete articles, collected for the first time ever! "When a charming young lady comes into your office and smilingly announces that she wants to ask you a few questions regarding the possibility of improving New York's moral tone, don't stop to parley. Just say: 'Excuse me, Nellie Bly,' and shin down the fire-escape."—Puck Magazine Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is best remembered for two "stunts": her undercover expose of the Blackwell's Island insane asylum, and her race around the world to beat the record set in Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days. Yet those events do not begin to grasp the scope of her career as a reporter.  Between 1885 and 1922, Nellie Bly penned hundreds of stories on a variety of topics. Reporting for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, she interviewed presidential candidates like Belva Lockwood and convicted criminals like Eva Hamilton, sports heroes like boxer John Sullivan and wrestler William Muldoon, inspirational icons like Helen Keller and Susan B. Anthony, and so many more. One week would find her undercover to expose a swindling lobbyist, the next taking up a new profession as an actress, and the next reporting on a strike.  Perhaps never before has a reporter had such a wide-ranging, adventurous career! Yet until now only a handful of her articles have been available to the public. Compiled by author David Blixt ("What Girls Are Good For"), Nellie Bly's World collects all of Bly's reporting during her years at the New York World.  Volume 2 begins with her retelling of the insane asylum in "Among The Mad," and ends with her race around the globe in 72 days. But that's hardly all! Among the 35 articles included in this collection are:  With the Prison Matrons The Veiled Prophetess Working Girls, Beware! Shadowed by a Detective Nellie Bly at West Point Women and Crime Nellie Bly Learns to Swim Is Astrology a Science? Nellie Bly Buys a Baby Nellie Bly's Many Doubles Nellie Bly's 700 Doctors From New York to Amiens Explore the full power of Bly's Blackwing pencil at the beginning of her ascent to becoming the most famous woman in America!

      From the bestselling author of TEN DAYS IN A MAD-HOUSE - Nellie Bly's complete articles, collected for the first time ever! "When a charming young lady comes into your office and smilingly announces that she wants to ask you a few questions regarding the possibility of improving New York's moral tone, don't stop to parley. Just say: 'Excuse me, Nellie Bly,' and shin down the fire-escape."—Puck Magazine Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is best remembered for two "stunts": her undercover expose of the Blackwell's Island insane asylum, and her race around the world to beat the record set in Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days. Yet those events do not begin to grasp the scope of her career as a reporter.  Between 1885 and 1922, Nellie Bly penned hundreds of stories on a variety of topics. Reporting for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, she interviewed presidential candidates like Belva Lockwood and convicted criminals like Eva Hamilton, sports heroes like boxer John Sullivan and wrestler William Muldoon, inspirational icons like Helen Keller and Susan B. Anthony, and so many more. One week would find her undercover to expose a swindling lobbyist, the next taking up a new profession as an actress, and the next reporting on a strike.  Perhaps never before has a reporter had such a wide-ranging, adventurous career! Yet until now only a handful of her articles have been available to the public. Compiled by author David Blixt ("What Girls Are Good For"), Nellie Bly's World collects all of Bly's reporting during her years at the New York World.  Volume 2 begins with her retelling of the insane asylum in "Among The Mad," and ends with her race around the globe in 72 days. But that's hardly all! Among the 35 articles included in this collection are:  With the Prison Matrons The Veiled Prophetess Working Girls, Beware! Shadowed by a Detective Nellie Bly at West Point Women and Crime Nellie Bly Learns to Swim Is Astrology a Science? Nellie Bly Buys a Baby Nellie Bly's Many Doubles Nellie Bly's 700 Doctors From New York to Amiens Explore the full power of Bly's Blackwing pencil at the beginning of her ascent to becoming the most famous woman in America!

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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. 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.

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