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 …

A memorial to Nellie Bly awaits construction on Roosevelt Island, NYC. This was the site of her first journalistic adventure. Back then called Blackwell's Island, this was where she spent her Ten Days in a Mad-House. It remains the most familiar and historic Nellie Bly story.

I was working on a short-story follow-up to What Girls Are Good For, my 2018 novel following the early career of groundbreaking undercover reporter Nellie Bly. My new story took place immediately…

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…

Nellie Bly, the late-nineteenth-century newspaper reporter, was, at one time, on the tip of every literate and tabloid-loving person’s tongue.

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Nellie Bly, reporter by Nina Brown Baker, 1961, Scholastic Book Services edition,

Nellie Bly was possibly the coolest traveler of all time.

Around the World in 72 Days eBook : Bly, Nellie: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Nellie Bly, intrepid reporter, a woman ahead of her time.