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These are what I call feel-good pieces ... They'll also be perform ‘Nellie Bly,' which was one of the first pieces I sang in college. It brought back lots of good memories, and the singers are having fun with that one.
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That Beautiful and Damned Thing
reporter Nellie Bly, writing about F Scott Fitzgerald in 1922, instructed her audience not to ‘praise a book like that beautiful and damned thing just because a smart and undesirable lot of young nobodies call it literature. It is a pitiful thing to see a 5/19/13 from 3AM Magazine Read more »
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Nellie Was a Lady: 1945 Radio Dramatization of Pioneering Female Journalist Nellie Bly’s Life
“The life, loves, and laughter of one of America’s most fascinating women.” Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month. If you find any joy and stimulation here, please consider becoming a Supporting Member with a recurring mo from Brain Pickings Read more »
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How to Pack Like Nellie Bly, Pioneering Journalist
writing as “a wild, crooked, shrieking hodge-podge,” a “caricature of life.” Elizabeth Bisland hosted tea parties; Nellie Bly was known to frequent O’Rourke’s saloon on the Bowery. But each of them was acutely conscious of the unequal position of women in from Brain Pickings Read more »
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Eighty Days
BESTSELLER On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that from Redmond Branch Library Read more »
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Pettis: 'Eighty Days' takes us on race around the world
in the opposite direction. This book is the story of their race. Elizabeth Jane Cochran, who wrote under the pen name Nellie Bly, was 25 and working for The World newspaper in New York City. She proposed the trip to her editor, who initially dismissed it, from Broomfield Enterprise Read more »
