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"A classic from one of the first prominent female journalists in America."
--Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine
"From the start, Bly is a natural writer. Her voice is caustic and confident, lilting effortlessly between the gush and private wonder of a schoolgirl's diary and the rigor of the most celebrated political reporters of her time. "
Nellie Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (1864-1922), an American journalist best known for her record-breaking trip around the world and her controversial undercover investigation of Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric facility.
Jean M. Lutes is an associate professor of English and director of academics for Gender and Women's Studies at Villanova University.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In advance of the 150th anniversary of her birth in May 2014, here is a collection of the best work by Nellie Bly, the first and greatest of the gutsy late-nineteenth-century journalists known as "girl stunt reporters." Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first female journalists in America and became a national phenomenon (with constituent board games, amusement park rides, movies, and popular songs), gaining fame by going undercover to write stories that nobody thought a woman could or should write. She committed herself to an insane asylum to report on its awful conditions in 1887; she argued that women should be able to propose marriage in a provoking op-ed in 1889; she traveled alone around the world to beat the Jules Vernefictionalized eighty-day record in 1890. An early muckracker, she became so popular that even Joseph Pulitzer, her own editor, commissioned work copycatting her style. Bly was both an iconoclast and a self-branding savant; her style of personal writing and interest in progressive issues made her a precursor for what journalism would become in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This collection, edited by Bly scholar Jean Lutes, brings together (and edits to their essentials) her best known works--Ten Days in a Mad-House, Six Months in Mexico, and, of course, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days--as well as many lesser known pieces that capture the breadth of her career- her fierce op-eds; her deeply investigated articles on progressive issues; her singular WWI reporting; and her wittiest, most trenchant, personal writing. In our blog-happy, memoir-obessed times--and as the field of investigatory journalism fights for its own existence--Bly's life and career feels as relevant as ever. Foreword contributor Maureen Corrigan has called Bly her "personal favorite female buccanneer" and reminds us why Bly remains such an edifying pleasure to read, as well as a hero to girls everywhere.The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalistBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first and best female journalists in America and quickly became a national phenomenon in the late 1800s, with a board game based on her adventures and merchandise inspired by the clothes she wore. Bly gained fame for being the first "girl stunt reporter," writing stories that no one at the time thought a woman could or should write, including an expose of patient treatment at an insane asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world without a chaperone. This volume, the only printed and edited collection of Bly's writings, includes her best known works-TenDays in a Mad-House,Six Months in Mexico, andAround the World in Seventy-Two Days-as well as many lesser known pieces that capture the breadth of her career from her fierce opinion pieces to her remarkable World War I reporting. As 2014 marks the 150th anniversary of Bly's birth, this collection celebrates her work, spirit, and vital place in history.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, the author was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world in emulation of Phileas Fogg. This title deals with her works. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780143107408
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