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Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. [1]
The Girl Puzzle Monument honoring activist and journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, pen name Nellie Bly (1864-1922), is a public sculptural installation by American artist Amanda Matthews, CEO/Partner of Prometheus Art Bronze Foundry and Metal Fabrication.
In March 1895, Seaman met journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, at a dinner party, or on a train, [1] and on April 5, 1895 married her. An article announcing their marriage called him one of the most carefully dressed men in New York. Seaman's loved ones were suspicious, sure that she had married him for ...
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The facility later received national attention due to the work of Nellie Bly (born Elizabeth Cochran Seaman), who committed herself to the women's ward in 1887 under the name Nellie Brown to expose the institution's inhumane conditions. [17]
The New York newspaper Cosmopolitan sponsored its own reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, to beat the time of both Phileas Fogg and Bly. Bisland would travel the opposite way around the world. [4] [5] Bly, however, did not learn of Bisland's journey until reaching Hong Kong. She dismissed the cheap competition. "I would not race," she said.
Nellie Bly (pen name for Elizabeth Cochran Seaman), 57, American journalist and adventurer who traveled around the world in 72 days on assignment for the New York World in 1889 and 1890; George Robert White, 74, American philanthropist and soap manufacturer in Boston; Giovanni Verga, 81, Italian writer; Count Johann Nepomuk Wilczek, 84 ...
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