Nellie Bly: A Career Shaped by Misfortune

Posted by on Aug 9, 2024 in | Comments Off on Nellie Bly: A Career Shaped by Misfortune When Nellie Bly completed her famed around-the-world journey in 1890, the New York World hailed the intrepid journalist as “the best-known and most widely talked-of young woman on earth today.” But had she not dropped out of college a decade before, no one would have ever heard of her. In fact, Nellie Bly would never have existed. The woman born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, who pioneered the concept...
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