Around the world in seventy-two days and other writings
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 t...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Penguin Books,
[2014]
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| Series: | Penguin classics.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331). |
| ISBN: | 9780143107408 0143107402 |
| Author Notes: | Jean M. Lutes is an associate professor of English and director of academics for Gender and Women's Studies at Villanova University. Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for NPR's Fresh Air , a lecturer at Georgetown University, and the author of the literary memoir, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading! She lives in Washington, D.C. |
