EPIC TALES IN EPIC FORMS
NELLIE BLY'S WORLD
Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is best remembered for two "stunts": her undercover expose of the Blackwell's Island insane asylum, and her race around the world to beat the fictional record set in Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days.
Yet those events do not even begin to grasp the scope of her career as a reporter. Between 1885 and 1922, Nellie Bly penned hundreds of stories on a variety of topics. Reporting for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, she interviewed presidential candidates and convicted criminals, sports heroes like boxer John Sullivan and wrestler William Muldoon, inspirational icons like Helen Keller and Susan B. Anthony, and many more. One week would find her undercover to expose a swindling lobbyist, the next taking up a new profession as an actress, and the next reporting on a strike.
Volume 1 begins with her cannon-blast debut, exposing over the course of three articles the events of her imprisonment in the Blackwell's Island insane asylum. But that's hardly all! Among the 33 articles included in this collection are: What Becomes of Babies - The Girls Who Make Boxes - Wanted—A Few Husbands -Nellie Bly on the Stage - Nellie Bly as a Mesmerist - The King of the Lobby - How to be Cured by Faith - Girls of the Wild West -Hangman Joe at Home - Our First Ladies
Explore the full power of Bly's Blackwing pencil at the beginning of her ascent to becoming the most famous woman in America!
Between 1885 and 1922, Nellie Bly penned hundreds of stories on a variety of topics. Reporting for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, she interviewed presidential candidates like Belva Lockwood and convicted criminals like Eva Hamilton, sports heroes like boxer John Sullivan and wrestler William Muldoon, inspirational icons like Helen Keller and Susan B. Anthony, and so many more. One week would find her undercover to expose a swindling lobbyist, the next taking up a new profession as an actress, and the next reporting on a strike.
Perhaps never before has a reporter had such a wide-ranging, adventurous career! Yet until now only a handful of her articles have been available to the public. Compiled by author David Blixt ("What Girls Are Good For"), Nellie Bly's World collects all of Bly's reporting during her years at the New York World.
Volume 2 begins with her retelling of the insane asylum in "Among The Mad," and ends with her race around the globe in 72 days. But that's hardly all! Among the 35 articles included in this collection are: With the Prison Matrons - The Veiled Prophetess - Working Girls, Beware! - Shadowed by a Detective - Nellie Bly at West Point - Women and Crime - Nellie Bly Learns to Swim - Is Astrology a Science?- Nellie Bly Buys a Baby - Nellie Bly's Many Doubles - Nellie Bly's 700 Doctors - From New York to Amiens
"Nellie Bly is the most widely known and the most energetic newspaper woman in the world. Everybody knows what she has done. Everybody will be glad to hear that she has resumed her regular newspaper work on The World."—The New York World, September 13, 1893
Volume 3 begins with her extensive interview with self-proclaimed anarchists, and continues through her undercover infiltrating of Democratic politics at Tammany Hall, visiting the famous Chicago's World Fair, exploring the rise among women who gamble, exposing a fraudulent "mind-reader," and revealing the horrifying practices of a society determined to exterminate New York's stray cat population. Among the articles included in this collection are:
Nellie Bly As A Salvation Army Girl - Nellie Bly And The Tiger - Nellie Bly On "The Midway" - A Woman Without A Heart - For Women Who Bet On Races - Living With A Broken Back - Dr. Parkhurst To Nellie Bly - Nellie Bly And The Mind-Reader - Nellie Bly And The Band Of Mercy
