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The Nellie Stories Free FREE THE NELLIE STORIES PDF Penny Matthews | 480 pages | 19 Sep 2016 | Penguin Books Australia | 9780670079155 | English | Hawthorn, Australia MARTHE JOCELYN - A Day With Nellie Inthe The Nellie Stories sent her on a trip around the world The Nellie Stories a record-setting 72 days. Famed investigative journalist Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran she later added an "e" to the end of her name on May 5,in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. The town was founded by her father, Michael Cochran, who provided for his family by working as a judge and landowner. The marriage was the second one for both Michael and Bly's mother, Mary Jane, who wed after the deaths of their first spouses. Michael had 10 children with his first wife and five more with Mary Jane, who had no prior children. Bly suffered a tragic loss inat the age of six, when her father died suddenly. Amid their grief, Michael's death presented a grave financial detriment to his family, as he left them without a will, and, thus, no legal claim to his estate. Bly later enrolled at the Indiana Normal School, a small college in Indiana, Pennsylvania, where she studied to become a teacher. However, not long after beginning her courses there, financial constraints forced Bly to table her hopes for higher education. After leaving the school, she moved with her mother to the nearby city of Pittsburgh, where they ran a boarding house together. Taking on the pen name by which she's best known, after a Stephen Foster song, she sought to highlight the negative consequences of sexist ideologies and the importance of women's rights issues. She also became renowned for her investigative and undercover reporting, including posing as a sweatshop worker to expose poor working conditions faced by women. In an effort to accurately expose the conditions at the asylum, she pretended to be a mental patient in order to be committed to the facility, where she lived for 10 days. The piece shed light on a number of disturbing conditions at the facility, including neglect and physical abuse, and, along with spawning her book on the subject, ultimately spurred a large-scale investigation of the institution. Davis, with Bly assisting, the asylum investigation resulted in significant changes in New York City's Department of Public Charities and Corrections later split into separate agencies. These changes included a larger appropriation of funds for the care of mentally ill patients, additional physician The Nellie Stories for stronger supervision of nurses and other healthcare workers, and regulations to prevent overcrowding and fire The Nellie Stories at the city's medical facilities. Given the green light to try the feat by the New York WorldBly embarked on her The Nellie Stories from Hoboken, New Jersey, in Novembertraveling first by ship The Nellie Stories later also via horse, rickshaw, sampan, burro and other vehicles. She completed the trip in 72 days, The Nellie Stories hours, 11 minutes and The Nellie Stories seconds—setting a real-world record, despite her fictional inspiration for the undertaking. Bly's record was beaten in by George Francis Train, who finished the trip in 67 days. Bolstered by continuous coverage in the WorldBly earned international stardom for her months-long stunt, and her fame continued to grow after she safely returned to her native state and her record-setting achievement was announced. InBly married millionaire industrialist Robert Seaman, who was 40 years her senior, and she became legally known as Elizabeth Jane Cochrane Seaman. Also around this time, she retired from journalism, and by all accounts, the couple enjoyed a happy marriage. During her time there, she began manufacturing the first practical gallon steel oil drum, which evolved into the standard one used today. While in charge of the company, Bly put her social reforms into action and Iron Clad employees enjoyed several perks unheard of at the time, including fitness gyms, libraries and healthcare. Ultimately, the costs of these The Nellie Stories began to mount and drain her inheritance. Faced with such dwindling finances, Bly consequently re-entered the newspaper industry. During her early journalism career, Bly wrote Six Months in Mexicowhich describes her time as a foreign correspondent in Mexico in In it, she explores the country's people and customs, and even stumbles upon marijuana. Her report was compiled into a The Nellie Stories, Ten Days in a Mad-Houseand led to lasting institutional reforms. Bly's celebrity reached an international level with her mission to travel around the world in 80 days, just as the character Phileas Fogg did in Jules Verne 's Around the World in Eighty Days. Bly accomplished her goal with days to spare, and, as with her experience in the asylum, her report became a book, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days In earlyLifetime released a thriller based on Bly's experience as an undercover reporter in a women's mental ward. Indirector Timothy Hines released 10 Days in a Madhousewhich also depicts Bly's harrowing experience in the asylum. Just two years after The Nellie Stories her writing career, on January 27,Bly died from pneumonia in New York City. She was 57 years old. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter The Nellie Stories receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Billie Holiday was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. She had a thriving career for many years before she lost her battle with addiction. Oscar winner Kate Winslet has The Nellie Stories in a number of acclaimed films. Martha Graham is considered by many to be the 20th century's most important dancer The Nellie Stories the mother of modern The Nellie Stories. Margaret Mead was a cultural anthropologist and writer best known for her studies and publications on the subject. A Peek at the Nellie Bly Memorial Set for Roosevelt Island - THE CITY Nellie Bly was a pioneering investigative journalist during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born inBly was not only one of the first women to demand an equal role in reporting, but she was also one of the first journalists to embrace a hands-on, undercover approach to reporting that became the precursor to modern investigative journalism. Following the completion of her trip around the world inBly became one of the most famous journalists in the United States. Nellie Bly died in New York City at just 57 years old, but her legacy as a reporter, as an activist, and as a reformer can still be felt today. It was one of the few things that helped set her apart from her 14 siblings. Her father, Michael Cochran, was a wealthy judge, mill owner, and landowner. Bly was born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, a town named in her father's honor, on May 5, The Nellie Stories By then, Michael Cochran already had The Nellie Stories children by his first wife, Catherine Murphy. The couple had another five children together, including Bly, and the large family lived relatively comfortably until When Bly was only six, Cochran died. He had no will, so Mary Jane had no legal claim to his estate. Instead, the remains of his estate were divided up between all of his children. With not much money and few other options, Bly's mother married a man named John Jackson Ford not long after Cochran's death. But Ford was frequently abusive and violent, and the next few years of Bly's childhood were marked with difficulty, fear, and financial uncertainty. But The Nellie Stories marriage wouldn't last. It was also around this time that Bly changed her name for the first time, adding an "e" to the end of Cochran because she believed it made her sound more sophisticated. However, she couldn't afford the tuition, and she left the school in her first semester due to lack of funds. Bly believed there would be more opportunities to find work in the city but was disappointed to The Nellie Stories that only a small number of jobs were open to women. Bly and her mother opened up a boarding house, and The Nellie Stories help make ends meet, Bly worked at the few odd jobs that employed women, like housekeeping or serving as a wealthy woman's companion. Despite her lack of formal education, Bly was smart, determined, and set on becoming a writer. Although she was unable at first to find paid writing jobs in Pittsburgh because of her gender, that didn't stop her from penning a fiery response to an article that was published in the Pittsburgh Dispatch in She The Nellie Stories off as "Lonely Orphan Girl. Madden had been so impressed with her writing that when Bly identified herself as the author of the piece, he offered her a job at the Pittsburgh Dispatch as a full-time columnist. Bly accepted and immediately began another pieceentitled "The Girl Puzzle," about the effect divorce had on women. At the time, most women journalists wrote under a pseudonym, and taking inspiration from a popular song by Stephen Foster called "Nelly Bly," she intended for that to be her pen name. However, her editor misspelled it as "Nellie," and the name stuck. Nellie Bly began her journalistic career covering the dismal conditions faced by working women in Pittsburgh's factories. She began by reporting on the daily The Nellie Stories of women laborers in the city, investigating the dangerous factories in which they worked long hours in unsafe conditions for low wages.
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