Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly

By Nellie Bly

The first edited quantity of labor by way of the mythical undercover journalist

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly used to be one of many first and top woman reporters in the USA and quick turned a countrywide phenomenon within the overdue 1800s, with a board online game in accordance with her adventures and item encouraged through the garments she wore. Bly received repute for being the 1st “girl stunt reporter,” writing tales that nobody on the time notion a girl may well or may still write, together with an exposé of sufferer therapy at an insane asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race all over the world with no chaperone. This quantity, the single revealed and edited choice of Bly’s writings, contains her top identified works—Ten Days in a Mad-HouseSix Months in Mexico, and Around the area in Seventy-Two Days—as good as many lesser recognized items that catch the breadth of her occupation from her fierce opinion items to her striking international battle I reporting. As 2014 marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Bly’s beginning, this assortment celebrates her paintings, spirit, and very important position in history.

For greater than seventy years, Penguin has been the top writer of vintage literature within the English-speaking international. With greater than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a world bookshelf of the easiest works all through heritage and throughout genres and disciplines. Readers belief the series to supply authoritative texts better by way of introductions and notes through exotic students and modern authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by means of award-winning translators.

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Men always use the machines. Women and men put chairs together and weave bottoms in them. They also make shoes, the finest and most artistic shoe in the world, and the cobblers can make a good shoe out of one that is so badly worn as to be useless to our grandmothers as a rod of correction. The water-carrier, aguador, is one of the most common objects on the street. They suspend water jars from their heads, one in front, one back.

Anthony (1896) V. Globetrotter From Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890) VI. On the Firing Line Nellie Bly on the Battlefield (1914) Nellie Bly Describes War Horrors (1914) At Scene of Slaughter (1914) Nellie Bly at Front (1915) VII. Dear Nellie Nellie Bly Finds a Home and Father for Little Waif (1919) Nellie Bly Tells of Disappointments (1919) Notes Foreword Every fall semester, the requests pop up on my university e-mail. The writers range in age from middle school to high school and they come from all over the country, but without exception, they’re always female.

She was encouraged to use a pseudonym—a common practice for women writers at the time—and she took “Nellie Bly,” a misspelled reference to a song by Pittsburgh native Stephen Foster. Dissatisfied by the women’s-page assignments she often received, she soon became a freelancer and traveled to Mexico with her mother to gain experience as a foreign correspondent. She moved to New York in 1887, where Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World offered her a job after she agreed to commit herself to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island to write about the atrocious conditions there.

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