Around the world in seventy-two days and other writings
By: Nellie Bly ; edited with an Introduction and notes by Jean Marie Lutes ; foreword by Maureen Corrigan
Contributors: Lutes, Jean Marie, 1967- editor
Series: Penguin classics; Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780143107408
Subjects: Travel; Voyages around the world
Work titles: Works
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331).
Table of contents: title: Gather up the real smart girls. The girl puzzle (1885); title: Nellie in Mexico (1886); title: Into the madhouse. Behind asylum bars (1887); title: Inside the madhouse (1887); title: Undercover again. The girls who make boxes (1887); title: The king of the lobby (1888); title: The woman question; title: Woman's part in politics (1888); title: Should women propose? (1888); title: Champion of her sex: Miss Susan B. Anthony (1896); title: Around the world in seventy-two days. Around the world in seventy-two days (1890); title: On the firing line. Nellie Bly on the battlefield (1914); title: War horrors (1914); title: At the scene of the slaughter (1914); title: At the front (1915); title: Dear Nellie. Nellie Bly finds a home and Father for little waif (1919); title: Nellie Bly tells of disappointments (1919).