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A sexist column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch prompted her to write a venomous rebuttal to the editor. The quality of the letter caused the editor to ask Cochran, who was desperately looking for a job, to join the paper as a reporter. The editor also gave her a pen name, Nellie Bly, after the title character in a popular song by Stephen Foster.
Bly wrote several investigative articles, before she was banished to the women's pages. She then left the Dispatch and went to New York City, where she applied for a job at Joseph Pulitzer's sensationalist newspaper, the New York World. Pulitzer hired her, and her first assignment was to write a story about the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. She let herself be committed and exposed the horrible condition under which patients were treated at the asylum. This form of journalism, going undercover to get a story, would become her trademark.
In 1888, it was suggested that the World should send a reporter on a trip around the world, mimicking Jules VerneJules Verne ( February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905) was a French writer and a pioneer of the science fiction ( scientific romance) genre. Early years Verne was born in Nantes to attorney Pierre Verne and his wife Sophie. The oldest of the family's five childre's book Around the World in Eighty DaysAround the World in Eighty Days Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1872. In the story, English adventurer Phileas Fogg, and his newly employed butler, Passepartout, attempt to circumnavig. It was decided that Nellie Bly should be that reporter, and on November 14November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining. Events 1800-1899 1851 Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in the U. by Harper & Brothers, New York after it was first published on, 1889Events January-April January 8 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. February 11 Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 January 30 ? Crown she left New York on her 24,899-mile journey. "Seventy-two days, six hours, eleven minutes and fourteen seconds after her HobokenHoboken is a densely populated city on the west bank of the Hudson River in Hudson County, New Jersey, just across from Manhattan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 38,577. Geography Hoboken is located at 40°44'41" North, 74°1'59" departure" ( January 25January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 340 days remaining (341 in leap years). Events 1327 Edward III becomes King of England. 1494 Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. 1533 Henry VIII of England marries his second wife, 1890Events January 2 Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U. White House. January 25 The United Mine Workers of America is founded. January 25 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. March 1 Leon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest) Nellie arrived in New York. This was a world record for circling the earth, which would stand until 1929Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 See also 1929 in aviation 1929 in film 1929 in literature 1929 in mu, when the Graf Zeppelin did it in "20 days, four hours and fourteen minutes".
Nellie Bly married millionaire Robert Seaman in 1895, and retired from journalism for a time. She took over management of his companies after he died in 1904. She returned to filing news stories later in life, covering a women's suffrage convention in 1913 and reporting on World War I from Europe's eastern front.
At the age of 57, Elizabeth "Pink" Cochrane died of pneumonia.
There is a small amusement park in Brooklyn, New York City named after her, taking as its theme Around the World in Eighty Days.
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