Pioneer Journalist Globetrotter Nelly Bly

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On the 14th of November 1889, journalist Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochran (1864 – 1922), at just 25 years of age, began her solo travel around the world. A year earlier, Bly had suggested to her editor Pulitzer at the New York World that she was to be despatched on a trip which would turn Jules Verne’s fictional Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) into reality. So, with only two days notice, Nellie was told that she was to board the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line which would start her 24,899-mile journey.

“It was my custom to think up ideas on Sunday and lay them before my editor for his approval or disapproval on Monday. But ideas did not come that day and three o’clock in the morning found me weary and with an aching head tossing about in my bed. At last tired…

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