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	Encyclopedia: Nellie Bly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The editor also gave Pink her pen name, Nellie Bly, after the title character in a popular song by Stephen Foster.
		Robert Seaman was a millionaire who was married to investigative journalist Elizabeth Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly) from 1895 until his death in 1904.
		It was decided that Nellie Bly should be that reporter, and on November 14, 1889 she left New York on her journey.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nellie-Bly (1529 words)

	Jules Verne - Nellie Bly - Andrew Nash
		Bly became so famous that dolls were made of her, songs were written about her, a race horse was named for her, and her image appeared everywhere from posters to soap ads to cartoons.
		Nellie Bly had already made a name for herself by exposing the deplorable conditions of an insane asylum on New York's Blackwell's Island.
		As a researcher, reporter, industrialist and reformer, Bly was a model of progress and achievement for women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.julesverne.ca /nelliebly.html (1068 words)

	Lesson Plan - Nellie Bly
		Nellie became the voice for the working women and most of her readers loved her for the articles that she published.
		Nellie always said, "Nothing is impossible." On November 14, 1889, she got on a ship in New Jersey and at last she was on her way around the world.
		Nellie was employed here until her death in 1922 (at the age of 55) from pneumonia.
	teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/Bly.html (3507 words)

	The American Experience \| Around the World in 72 Days \| People & Events \| Nellie Bly
		Bly found a way out by convincing the editors to let her be a foreign correspondent in Mexico, where she observed and then sent back stories about the everyday lives of the Mexican people.
		In the years ahead, Bly exposed both corruption and the injustice of poverty, revealing shady lobbyists, the ways in which women prisoners were treated by police, the in adequate medical care given to the poor, and much more.
		Bly's personality was always part of her stories, and she injected her reactions, feelings and observations into whatever the subject she was covering.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/world/peopleevents/pande01.html (908 words)

	Nellie Bly
		When Nellie arrived she was greeted by thousands of people, many of whom were women honoring Bly's completion of her challenge.
		Nellie was honored with a line of clothing in her name, songs about her, and dances named after her.
		Nellie Bly was not just a woman, journalist, or a record setter; she was a leader, an influence for generations to come.
	www.op97.k12.il.us /julian/zonta/nelliebly.html (935 words)

	Women's History-Nellie Bly
		Nellie Bly burst upon the scene at a time when a woman's place was, in the words of one newspaper editor, "defined and located by a single word — home." But Bly's "push-and-get-there" style helped to change the way reporters did their jobs.
		Bly was born Elizabeth Cochran in a small Pennsylvania town in the 1860s.
		Bly traveled alone with a single satchel and a coat that became her trademark.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/womhst/nellie.htm (1199 words)

	NYCHS: Nellie Bly -- After Blackwell's Island Asylum
		Bly's exploit was the talk of the Nineteenth Precinct station house and the Jefferson Market Court the next day (she said Judge Duffy did not recognize her from the madhouse adventure; he said he did).
		Bly was convinced, and O'Brien confirmed for her, that all his troubles started because he didn't have a father or a real home.
		Nellie Bly died too young, cheated of the fortune that should have been her own, suffering for years from ill health that could not diminish her courage or her kindness of heart.
	www.correctionhistory.org /rooseveltisland/bly/html/postblackwell.html (5552 words)

	MSN Encarta - Nellie Bly
		Nellie Bly, pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864-1922), American journalist, born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania.
		In 1889 Bly made a well-publicized trip around the world by train and steamboat in an attempt to make the journey in less time than the fictional character Phileas Fogg in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, by the French writer Jules Verne.
		Bly completed her trip in the record time of 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and she chronicled her adventures in Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556391/Bly_Nellie.html (173 words)

	ThirdAge - Daily News Newsletter - Wisdom of the Ages: Nellie Bly
		In its obituary on Nellie Bly (1864-1922), The New York Evening Journal called her the "best reporter in America." One of the most capivating characters of the turn of the century, Nellie Bly, along with being a pioneering journalist, was an industrialist and humanitarian who delighted in being female.
		Born Elizabeth Cochran (she later changed her name to Nellie Bly, after a character in a Steven Foster song) in a mill community near Apollo, Pa., she was a feminist before her time who gained success and fame without the benefits of privileged birth or a higher education.
		Nellie was the subject of song and musical theater toward the end of her career in newspapers.
	www.thirdage.com /news/archive/980516-04.html (315 words)

	Nellie Bly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nellie was very unhappy with this, so she wrote an angry letter to the newspaper saying that women can be as strong as men.
		Nellie pretended to be a patient at a mental asylum.
		By the time she died in 1922 at age 58, Nellie Bly was one of the best reporters of all time and she had made her life-long dream come true.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/bly2.html (338 words)

	NYCHS: Nellie Bly -- In Blackwell's Island Asylum
		Bly, seeing her opening, immediately offered in a letter to be the reporter on board.
		Two months later, Nellie Bly's "Ten Days in a Mad-House" was out in book form, slightly embellished with Bly's afterthoughts on her adventure, along with reprints of two subsequent stunts that appeared in The World to fill the work out to book length.
		On October 5, four days before Bly's first report appeared, requests were submitted for substantial increases in the budgets of all the facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Charities and Corrections, including the prisons, hospitals, workhouse, and almshouse, as well as the asylums.
	www.correctionhistory.org /rooseveltisland/bly/html/blackwell.html (4877 words)

	Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane)
		Nellie Bly was born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania in the year 1867.
		Nellie herself described the asylum as follows from a memoir gained on the internet about her stay: "The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap.
		Nellie Bly was not only known for her 10 day stay at Blackwell's Island, but she was also known and made famous for her prestigious trip around the whole world in only 72 days.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/nbly.html (867 words)

	Nellie Bly
		It may be said that from the very beginning, Nellie Bly's mother taught her how to attract attention to herself by christening her in a bright pink gown.
		Nellie continued her undercover "stunt" reporting for the New York World until the fall of 1888, when it was suggested at a round table meeting amoung the World's executives to send a man around the world in less than 80 days.
		Nellie Bly's life was so remarkable that I was only able to touch upon a few important events.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/nellie.html (1355 words)

	Nellie Bly
		Bly's journalistic style was marked by her first-hand tales of the lives of ordinary people.
		Her editor later wrote that Bly was "full of fire and her writing was charged with youthful exuberance." However, it was not long before he was receiving complaints from those institutions that Bly was attacking in her articles.
		Nellie Bly died of pneumonia in New York on 27th January, 1922.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWbly.htm (1609 words)

	NELLIE BLY - Historical Sign
		Nellie Bly had no time for romance until 1895, when she fell in love with and married an attractive millionaire, Robert Seaman.
		Bly put her career on hold for the handsome industrialist and did not return to journalism until her husband died in 1915.
		Nellie Bly remained on the staff of the New York Journal until her death in 1922.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11000 (438 words)

	Four Outstanding Women in Journalism - Stamps
		Nellie Bly, Marguerite Higgins, Ethel L. Payne, and Ida M. Tarbell were honored with the issuance of the Women in Journalism commemorative postage stamps on Sept. 14 in Fort Worth, Texas.
		Nellie Bly, Marguerite Higgins, Ethel L. Payne, and Ida M. Tarbell made their contributions to journalism at different times, but they were all trailblazers in a field dominated by men.
		Nellie Bly (1864-1922) was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Cochrans Mills, Pa. In 1885, angered by a column in The Pittsburg Dispatch, she sent an anonymous letter to the editor.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art4808.asp (1198 words)

	Nellie Bly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bly was so famous in her time that dolls were made of her, songs were written about her, a race horse was named for her, and her image appeared everywhere from posters to soap ads to cartoons.
		Bly expressed her dissatisfaction with his decision by taking a six-month vacation in Mexico, where she wrote letters to the Dispatch about poverty and political corruption there.
		Bly's trip around the world was unusual because it was the first of its kind, and because she was a woman.
	www.goddesscafe.com /FEMJOUR/bly.html (672 words)

	Nellie Bly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I chose Nellie Bly as a woman of historic value to do a report on because I had previously heard about her accomplishments in journalism.
		Nellie Bly wrote many articles on the life of women and she went to Mexico and reported on the condition of the poor in the country.
		I believe that Nellie Bly was important because she was, first of all, a great reporter, but she went into depth with the stories she covered.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/WH/acs/acs.htm (433 words)

	Skill and Success - The Careers of Nellie Bly and F. Matthias Alexander
		At around the same time that Bly was achieving success in the world of journalism, half way around the globe another talented individual was learning how to “rightly apply and direct” energy within himself in order to overcome a serious obstacle he was facing.
		Bly relied on her energy, wits and instinct to achieve success.
		Bly’s legacy lives on in the successful careers of today’s many women reporters, news analysts and TV anchor-persons and in the investigative reporting techniques she helped pioneer.
	nelliebly.netfirms.com (767 words)

	Nellie Bly biography
		Nelly Bly was a news correspondant and world traveller at a time when women's opportunities didn't normally afford this kind of adventure
		A year after hiring on, the paper sent her to Mexico where she observed and wrote about the tragic living conditions of the poor, the political corruption and the disparity between living conditions of the upper and lower classes.
		Nonplussed, Nellie Bly went to New York where she promptly convinced Joseph Pulitzer to put her on staff at New York's most widely read newspaper, the New York World.
	az.essortment.com /nellyblybiogra_rsls.htm (403 words)

	November 14 history Focus - Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane)
		Prior to her famous trip, Nellie Bly had already made a name for herself as one of Joseph Pulitzer's top reporters.
		By the age of twenty-three, Nellie Bly was famous and loved by her readers.
		Despite numerous perils, Bly said that she "would rather go back to New York dead than not a winner." She returned in triumph on January 25, 1890.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/1327/1114focus.html (461 words)

	CD Baby: NELLIE BLY: Nellie Bly
		Nellie Bly isn't afraid to embrace the raw and gritty side of rock and roll.
		As Nellie Bly (named after the intrepid turn-of-the-past-century female reporter), this duo's recently released self-titled album is full of songs perfect for the moment when a bittersweet breakup curdles into something nasty.
		Guitar and bass might be the foundations of Nellie Bly's songs, but they fill out the sound with violins, accordions and even more unique instruments: an antique church pump organ, a cello tuned like a bass, a piano whose strings are weighted down to make never-before-heard notes...
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/nelliebly (772 words)

	Journalist nellie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nellie Bly, Pioneer Woman Journalist - Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Jane Cochran,pioneered investigative journalism for women in the nineteenth century.
		Nellie Bly, Pioneer Woman Journalist Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Jane Cochran,pioneered investigative journalism for women in the nineteenth century.
		NELLIE BLY, born as Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Pennsylvania in 1864,...
	www.bluetoothbest.com /journalist+nellie.html (1069 words)

	PEOPLE IN AMERICA - November 18, 2001: Nellie Bly - 2001-11-15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nellie Bly left for New York City and began her job at the New York World.
		Nellie Bly may be best remembered in history for a trip she took.
		Nellie Bly told her editors she would go even if they did not help her.
	www.voanews.com /specialenglish/Archive/a-2001-11-15-3-1.cfm?renderforprint=1&textonly=1&&TEXTMODE=1&CFID=14362447&CFTOKEN=44714012 (1404 words)

	NELLIE BLY, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES
		One of the original investigative reporters was a woman named Nellie Bly.
		Bly was hired by the New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer.
		During her career, Nellie Bly began the concept of investigative reporting, exposed many social evils, caused reforms to be made in many areas, and opened the field of journalism to women.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/bly.html (422 words)

	Nellie Bly
		Bly is best remembered for circling the globe in 72 days, thus beating the record of
		But Bly was a well-established journalist long before she began the stunt, which she did as a reporter for the New York
		She quickly became one of the most respected muckrakers of her time, and the term Nellie Bly continues to be synonymous with a highly regarded female investigative journalist.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0878617.html (223 words)

	Nellie Bly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nellie Bly was the first women investigative journalist.
		Nellie went to a boarding school in Indiana, Pennsylvania for 1 year, 1880-1881.
		If Nellie Bly wasn't born, there wouldn't be any women investigative journalist or reporters Her first book was around the world in 72 days.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/bly.html (126 words)

	BROOKE KROEGER - Nellie
		Nellie Bly was ”the best reporter in America” wrote THE NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL on the occasion of her death in 1922.
		NELLIE BLY: DAREDEVIL, REPORTER, FEMINIST is the first fully documented biography of Bly and integrates a wealth of previously unknown information with a reporter's zeal for the hard fact.
		It is the first attempt to give us this legendary figure in all her complexity: the most famous woman journalist of her day, an extraordinary American industrialist, and a compelling humanitarian.
	brookekroeger.com /nellie/nellie.html (127 words)

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