Around the world in seventy-two days and other writings / Nellie Bly ; edited with an Introduction and notes by Jean Marie Lutes ; foreword by Maureen Corrigan.
Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922, author.; Lutes, Jean Marie, 1967- editor, author of introduction.; Corrigan, Maureen, author of foreword.
2014
PN4874.C59 A25 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Around the world in seventy-two days and other writings / Nellie Bly ; edited with an Introduction and notes by Jean Marie Lutes ; foreword by Maureen Corrigan.
Author Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922, author.
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ISBN 9780143107408 paperback
0143107402 paperback
Published New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
Language English
Description xxviii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Call Number PN4874.C59 A25 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 070.92
Summary In 1885, Elizabeth Jane Cochran -- pen name, Nellie Bly -- was hired as one of the first female journalists after writing a scathing rebuttal to a misogynist newspaper column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The newspaper's editor was so taken aback by Bly's incendiary prose that he posted an ad asking the article's author to come work for him. Within five years, Bly had become the first "girl stunt reporter," going undercover to write wildly popular stories that no one at the time thought a woman could or should write. She committed herself to the Lunatic Asylum at Blackwell's Island for ten days to expose the abysmal treatment of the patients and later traveled around the world alone in seventy-two days, breaking Jules Verne's fictional record by eight days. This volume is the only existing printed and edited collection of work by one of America's most famous journalists, an irresistible hero to girls, women, and adventurers everywhere. -- page 4 of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author Lutes, Jean Marie, 1967- editor, author of introduction.
Corrigan, Maureen, author of foreword.
Series Penguin classics.
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Gather up the real smart girls. The girl puzzle (1885)
Nellie in Mexico (1886)
Into the madhouse. Behind asylum bars (1887)
Inside the madhouse (1887)
Undercover again. The girls who make boxes (1887)
The king of the lobby (1888)
The woman question
Woman's part in politics (1888)
Should women propose? (1888)
Susan B. Anthony (1896)
Globetrotter. From Around the world in seventy-two days (1890)
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)
Dear Nellie. Nellie Bly finds a home and Father for little waif (1919)
Nellie Bly tells of disappointments (1919).

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