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The portrait of Nellie Bly as a young woman is cast in silver bronze. The other faces, cast in bronze and portrayed in broken sections, include an Asian-American woman, an African-American woman, a young girl, and an older LGBTQ woman. These women are not specific people from Bly's life, but are inspired by women in the artist's life. [10]
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 for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within ...
Amanda standing next to the clay faces in her studio for The Girl Puzzle Monument in New York City honoring Nellie Bly Matthews accepting NAWBO Strive Business Owner of the Year Award, 2018 Amanda Matthews with Roland Martin at Newseum, Washington, DC for unveiling of Alice Allison Dunnigan statue Amanda Matthews with Congressman John Lewis at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ...
RIOC began soliciting plans for a memorial to the journalist Nellie Bly in 2019; [319] it ultimately commissioned The Girl Puzzle monument by Amanda Matthews, [320] which was dedicated in December 2021. [321] There was an additional influx of residents during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, particularly among those looking for open ...
Amanda Matthews - Girl Puzzle Monument Honoring Nellie Bly on Roosevelt Island in New York City [84] Portia Munson - Bound Angel [85] David Mutasa – Statue of Mbuya Nehanda; Luke Perry - Phil Lynott Monument in West Bromwich, England [86] Ian Rank-Broadley – Statue of Diana, Princess of Wales in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace in ...
1887: In Nellie Bly's Ten Days in a Mad-House she references the Bruce's night of watching the spider and her own attempts in staying awake. 1906: In Freedom's Cause by G. A. Henty , Robert the Bruce is the Scottish king.
Adventurer's Park is a small amusement park in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn in New York City. The concession, located within the city-owned Nellie Bly Park, next to the Belt Parkway, was opened in 1966. [1]
The epilogue reveals that Nellie's work led to sweeping mental health reform, including the closing of the Women's Lunatic Asylum. Nellie continued to work as a journalist until her death in 1922. In 1998, Nellie was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame under her actual name, Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, as "Nellie Bly" is a pen name. [2]