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Nellie Bly, American Journalist

Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922) was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker 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 faked insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. She was a pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journalism. In 1895 she married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman. She retired from journalism and became the president of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Company. In 1904, her husband died. For a time she was one of the leading women industrialists in the United States, but embezzlement by employees resulted in the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co. going bankrupt. Back in reporting, she wrote stories on Europe's Eastern Front during WWI and covered the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913. She died of pneumonia in 1922 at the age of 57. Photographed by H.J. Myers, circa 1890.
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Nellie Bly, American Journalist
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Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922) was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker 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 faked insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. She was a pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journalism. In 1895 she married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman. She retired from journalism and became the president of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Company. In 1904, her husband died. For a time she was one of the leading women industrialists in the United States, but embezzlement by employees resulted in the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co. going bankrupt. Back in reporting, she wrote stories on Europe's Eastern Front during WWI and covered the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913. She died of pneumonia in 1922 at the age of 57. Photographed by H.J. Myers, circa 1890.
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