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Nellie Bly spent a lifetime doing things a “reserved” Victorian woman just wasn’t supposed to do.
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In late 1889, a young reporter named Nellie Bly set out to accomplish what others had only dreamed of, to make the fantasy of Jules Verne’s novel "Around the World in Eighty Days" a reality. Seventy-two days after departing Hoboken, she arrived back in New Jersey on January 25th, 1890--the first person--man or woman--to circle the globe with such speed. But Bly’s story is even more remarkable: as one of Joseph Pulitzer’s prize reporters, she spent years documenting the lives of America’s underclass.
The first story to put her in the forefront was a remarkable account of her experience in a “madhouse.” Posing as a mentally unstable woman, Bly spent ten harrowing days in the most infamous asylum in New York City. Her exposé of the horrors she witnessed and experienced shook the city and America to the core. This would be the first of many stories Bly would write as a covert reporter, single-handedly creating a whole new genre of journalism: underground investigative reporting.
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