26 Facts About Nelly Bly

Nelly Bly's was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.

Nelly Bly later became a merchant, postmaster, and associate justice at Cochran's Mills in Pennsylvania.

Nelly Bly had 10 children with his first wife, Catherine Murphy, and 5 more children, including Elizabeth Cochran his thirteenth daughter, with his second wife, Mary Jane Kennedy.

Burdened again with theater and arts reporting, Nelly Bly left the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1887 for New York City.

Nelly Bly's faced rejection after rejection as news editors would not consider hiring a woman.

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Nelly Bly's stayed up all night to give herself the wide-eyed look of a disturbed woman and began making accusations that the other boarders were insane.

Nelly Bly's had a significant impact on American culture and shed light on the experiences of marginalized women beyond the bounds of the asylum as she ushered in the era of stunt girl journalism.

In 1893, Nelly Bly used the celebrity status she had gained from her asylum reporting skills to schedule an exclusive interview with the allegedly insane serial killer Lizzie Halliday.

In 1888, Nelly Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time.

Nelly Bly's had circumnavigated the globe, traveling alone for almost the entire journey.

Nelly Bly's journey was a world record, though it only stood for a few months, until George Francis Train completed the journey in 67 days.

Nelly Bly was an inventor in her own right, receiving for a novel milk can and for a stacking garbage can, both under her married name of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman.

Nelly Bly's ran her company as a model of social welfare, replete with health benefits and recreational facilities.

Back in reporting, she wrote stories on Europe's Eastern Front during World War I Bly was the first woman and one of the first foreigners to visit the war zone between Serbia and Austria.

Nelly Bly's was arrested when she was mistaken for a British spy.

Nelly Bly covered the Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913 for the New York Evening Journal.

Nelly Bly's was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.

In 1998, Nelly Bly was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Nelly Bly was one of four journalists honored with a US postage stamp in a "Women in Journalism" set in 2002.

Nelly Bly was the subject of the 1946 Broadway musical Nellie Nelly Bly by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen.

Nelly Bly was a subject of Season 2 Episode 5 of The West Wing in which First Lady Abbey Bartlet dedicates a memorial in Pennsylvania in honor of Nellie Nelly Bly and convinces the President to mention her and other female historic figures on his weekly radio address.

Nelly Bly has been the subject of two episodes of the Comedy Central series Drunk History.

Nelly Bly has been featured as the protagonist of novels by David Blixt, Marshall Goldberg, Dan Jorgensen, Carol McCleary, Pearry Reginald Teo and Christine Converse.

Board game Round the World with Nellie Nelly Bly created in 1890 is named in recognition of her trip.

Fireboat named Nellie Nelly Bly operated in Toronto, Canada, in the first decade of the 20th century.

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Between 1889 and 1895, Nellie Nelly Bly penned twelve novels for The New York Family Story Paper.