Nellie Bly, American Journalist
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Nellie Bly, American Journalist
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In 1888 Nellie Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time. A year later, at 940 AM on November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line, and began her 24,899-mile journey. She took with her the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of underwear, and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry essentials. She carried most of her money (200 pounds in English bank notes and gold, as well as some American currency) in a bag tied around her neck. Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922) was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. She was also an industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days and an exposé in which she faked insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. She died of pneumonia in 1922 at the age of 57. Photographed by H.J. Myers, circa 1890.
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