Nellie Bly
1865?-1922
American newspaper reporter who set a speed record for round-the-world travel in 1889-90. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, she wrote under the name Nellie Bly, taken from popular so...
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Bly, Nellie (1864-1922)
"Nellie Bly" was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane Seaman, a pioneer of "stunt" journalism (an early form of investigative reporting). Bly�...
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Nellie Bly
Born May 5, 1864, Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania Died January 27, 1922
Nellie Bly had an adventurous spirit and a strong concern for others. These two qualities combined to make her ...
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Nellie Bly was one of the most famous journalists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite her accomplishments and fascinating life, her work has been largely ignored. With the ex...
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Nellie Bly is a part of American folklore--a larger-than-life figure who beat Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg around the world. But traveling the circumference of the globe in seventy-t...
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Journalist and reformer Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, better known as Nellie Bly (1864-1922), gained fame at the end of the nineteenth century for her investigative reports of abusive conditions in the c...
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Nellie Bly
Bly, Nellie (1864-1922)
Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochrane
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman