Nellie Bly
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Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne
Cochran c. 1890
Portrait of a 21-year-old Bly in Mexico
The New York City Mental Health Hospital on Blackwell's Island, c. 1893
United for Libraries Literary Landmark on Roosevelt Island (formerly Blackwell's Island) that mentions Bly's connection to the island
Stunt girl
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A stunt girl was a woman investigative journalist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. The term was often used derogatorily.
Nellie Bly
…character Phileas Fogg, and for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She ushered in the era of stunt girl reporting and helped advance a new kind of immersion journalism. Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born May 5, 1864, in Cochran's Mills, now part of Burrell…
Publicity photo for Bly's "Around the World" series
A photograph of Barnes being forcibly fed