Nellie Bly Interviews Wives Of US Cabinet Secretaries

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...
Nellie Bly’s World – SOME LADIES WHO FENCE

Nellie Bly’s World – SOME LADIES WHO FENCE

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...

Nellie Bly’s World – NELLIE BLY ON THE STAGE

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...