Mar 12, 2024 | History - Nellie Bly
During the election of 1888, Nellie Bly spent a week interviewing the wives of the various candidates, then followed up by embarking on interviewing all the living former first ladies. This must have been well received, for here she is immediately following the...
Sep 19, 2023 | Books - Essential Posts - History - Nellie Bly - Publishing
It was the first day of December, 2019, and like Alice, I was down a rabbit hole. I was working on a short-story follow-up to my 2018 novel What Girls Are Good For, recounting the early career of Nellie Bly, the pioneering American journalist known for her fearless...
Jul 1, 2022 | Books - History - Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly and Mr. Lexow The New York World/July 1, 1894 The Chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee Answers Some Very Interesting Questions More Exposures To Come What Mr. Lexow Believes Will Be the Ultimate Result of the Revelations of Corruption The Excise...
Mar 11, 2022 | History - Nellie Bly
New York World – Sunday, March 11, 1888 Nellie Bly Takes a Hand at Foils and Likes the Exercise It Looks Very Easy, But Isn’t—Women Cleverer Than Men Are—Anybody Can Learn to be Graceful at It—How Members of the Fencers’ Club Dress—Teachers Say That the Practice...
Mar 4, 2022 | History - Nellie Bly - Theatre
New York World -Sunday, March 4, 1888 She Wears a Scant Costume and Marches With the Amazons It Isn’t Very Hard to Get Such a Job—The Girls Earn $5 a Week—Tights that Did Not Fit—Dressing in a Crowded Room—How She Behaved on the Stage—A Bad Beginning. I made my début...
