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Photo: American journalist Nellie Bly, in a publicity photo for her around-the-world voyage. Read more on the GenealogyBank blog: “‘Plucky’ Woman Beats ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Record” https://blog.genealogybank.com/plucky-woman-beats-around-the-world-in-80-days-record.html
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‘Plucky’ Woman Beats ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Record

An article about Nellie Bly, who arrived in New York City on 25 January 1890 having set a new record by traveling around the world in 72 days.

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125 years ago Friday, the world’s most famous female journalist – Nellie Bly of the New York World – set out to see if she could beat a fictional around-the-world record journey …

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The real Phileas Fogg: the true story of the woman who travelled around the world in (less than) 80 days
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The real Phileas Fogg: the true story of the woman who travelled around the world in (less than) 80 days

Where did Jules Verne find his ideas for Phileas Fogg and his extraordinary globe-trotting adventure?

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Bly, Nellie, pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane, American journalist whose around-the-world race against a fictional record brought her world renown.
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Nellie Bly | American journalist

Nellie Bly, pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane, also spelled Cochran, (born May 5, 1864, Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 27, 1922, New York, New York), American journalist whose around-the-world race against a fictional record brought her world renown. Elizabeth Cochran (she later added a final “e” to Cochran) received scant formal schooling. She began her career in 1885 in her native Pennsylvania as a reporter for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, to which she had sent an angry letter…

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The 10 best newspaper scoops

The Guardian has been praised for its role in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Here are some other great front-page exposés, from child prostitution to MPs on the fiddle

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What Girls Are Good For: 20-Year-Old Nellie Bly’s 1885 Response to a Patronizing Chauvinist | Brain Pickings
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What Girls Are Good For: 20-Year-Old Nellie Bly’s 1885 Response to a Patronizing Chauvinist

How the trailblazing female journalist got her start at speaking truth to power.

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In Search of Nellie Bly: America's Pioneering Investigative Journalist

An excerpt from Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger details how the author unearthed some of the obscured facts about Bly's life.

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#100Days100Women Day 9: Nellie Bly, pioneering investigative journalist & writer, also made a record-breaking trip around the world. She was a trailblazer in undercover journalism, notoriously getting herself committed to an asylum to expose the horrid conditions and abuses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
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#100Days100Women Day 9: Nellie Bly, pioneering investigative journalist & writer, also made a record-breaking trip around the world. She was a trailblazer in undercover journalism, notoriously getting herself committed to an asylum to expose the horrid conditions and abuses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

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Prize-winning, Pittsburgh Dispatch reporter Nellie Bly is born in Cochran's Mills. Bly is most famous for her record-breaking, 72 day, six hour, 11 minute and 14 seconds trip around the world, and for her exposé on the conditions in a New York mental asylum.
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Nellie Bly

Prize-winning, Pittsburgh Dispatch reporter Nellie Bly is born in Cochran's Mills. Bly is most famous for her record-breaking, 72 day, six hour, 11 minute and 14 seconds trip around the world, and for her exposé on the conditions in a New York mental asylum.

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7 Badass Quotes from Feminist and Trailblazer Nellie Bly

On November 14, 1889, journalist Nellie Bly launched her historic 72-day trip around the world. It was the first time anyone had attempted to live out the story of Phineas Logg, the protagonist in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, and…

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