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The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated):

The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated):

Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Cochrane in 1864; women customarily used pen names in journalism, so she took up the name Nellie Bly when she began working for the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Bly began writing for the Dispatch as a young  ...
Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids: Mighty ...

Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids: Mighty ...

Ellen Mahoney

“all was calm” Kroeger, Nellie Bly, 4. “justice of the peace in 1840” Kroeger, Nellie Bly, 3. “doctor, a dentist” Macy, Bylines, 8. “a mean and abusive drunk” Kroeger, Nellie Bly, 15. “My age is 14” Kroeger, Nellie Bly, 20. “[I have] seen mother ...
Nellie Bly: daredevil, reporter, feminist

Nellie Bly: daredevil, reporter, feminist

Brooke Kroeger

In tracing the trajectory of Nellie Bly's life as a woman and a critic and a crusader, in describing how Bly did it - how she relentlessly drove herself to surmount challenge after challenge - Brooke Kroeger gives us not only an inspiring ...
Nellie Bly: A Name to Be Reckoned With

Nellie Bly: A Name to Be Reckoned With

Stephen Krensky

Nellie Bly wasn't always Nellie Bly. First she was Elizabeth Cochrane, a shy girl from Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. All her life Elizabeth had been told, "girls can' t do this" and "girls can't do that." Even the newspaper the Pittsburgh Dispatch ...
Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist

Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist

Brooke Kroeger

Nellie Bly viewed every situation as an opportunity to make a significant difference in other peoples lives as well as her own.
Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly

The book comprised Bly's reportage for the New York World while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned insanity at a women's boarding house, so as to be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum.
The Nellie Bly Collection: The Books

The Nellie Bly Collection: The Books

Tri Fritz

However, to her surprise, the World did not offer Nellie a bonus in pay despite the increase in circulation she had created. Upset over the sleight,Nellie Bly resigned from the newspaper. Though unemployed, Nellie wasnot shortof opportunities ...
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly Jean Marie Lutes. P E N G U I N B O O K S Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 USA | Canada | UK | Ireland | Australia | New Zealand |India| South Africa |China  ...
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

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S. P. Cerasano, Mary Bly, Heather Anne Hirschfeld ... not least of all, theatrical audiences. A gathering of reviews explores related areas. S. P. CERASANO Editor Contributors Douglas Arrell is a Senior Scholar in the Department 7 Foreword.
Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans on the Early Modern Stage

Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans on the Early Modern Stage

Mary Bly

As Raymond Waddington has pointed out, Shakespeare's line 'assigns dominance to the phallus', giving a portrait of "the ambivalent sexuality that is the essence of this beautiful young man's character'. Shakespeare's Sounett. 20: t3 t4  ...
Zero Days: The Real Life Adventure of Captain Bligh, Nellie ...

Zero Days: The Real Life Adventure of Captain Bligh, Nellie ...

Barbara Egbert

The Real Life Adventure of Captain Bligh, Nellie Bly, and 10-Year-Old Scrambler on the Pacific Crest Trail Barbara Egbert ... The trio—who adopted the trail names Nellie Bly, Captain Bligh, and Scrambler—weathered the heat of the Mojave, ...
The Scottish Covenanter Genealogical Index - (1630-1712): ...

The Scottish Covenanter Genealogical Index - (1630-1712): ...

Isabelle MacLean

... Mary CARRUTHERS, Mary CARRUTHERS, Mary CARRUTHERS, Mary CARRUTHERS, Mary CARRUTHERS, Mary CARRUTHERS, Mary CARRUTHERS, Nicolas CARRUTHERS, Nicolas CARRUTHERS, Patrick CARRUTHERS, Richard ...
Mary Ward

Mary Ward

Sister Margaret Mary

This is the first paperback edition of the standard biography of Mary Ward.Mary Ward founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the 17th Century, an order devoted to the education of women so they could play their part in the ...
Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

Shannon Knudsen

Follows the life of the celebrated reporter, from her early days to her trip around the world and later triumphs.
Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

Elizabeth Ehrlich

Follows the life of the celebrated reporter, from her early days to her trip around the world and later triumphs.
Mary Ward: pilgrim and mystic, 1585-1645

Mary Ward: pilgrim and mystic, 1585-1645

Margaret Mary Littlehales

Mary Poyntz and Henriette Peters make interesting comments on the happenings of this year in Mary Ward's life. The former quotes Mary herself as saying God perhaps permitted these months as a Poor Clare choir sister "to take away a ...
The Price, Blakemore, Hamblen, Skipwith, and allied lines: ...

The Price, Blakemore, Hamblen, Skipwith, and allied lines: ...

Jay Berry Price

... osephine Blakemore 611-613 Mary L. Blakemore 557 Mary Lewis Blakemore 513 Mary Louise "MoUie" Blakemore 574, 580 Mary Lynn Blakemore 579 Mary " Polly" Blakemore 125, 445 Mary Stewart Blakemore 55 Mary Suzanne Blakemore ...
Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly

Pen name of American pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran.
Executive Documents, Annual Reports

Executive Documents, Annual Reports

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Barbra Streisand: the untold story

Barbra Streisand: the untold story

Nellie Bly

Chronicles the life of the singer and actress, from her lonely childhood, to her Broadway and Hollywood triumphs, to her love affairs and friendships
Exploraciones Curso Intermedio, Enhanced

Exploraciones Curso Intermedio, Enhanced

Mary Ann Blitt

Mary Ann Blitt, Margarita Casas, Mary T. Copple ... Western Michigan U Mark Harpring, University of Puget Sound Marlene Gottlieb, Manhattan College Mary Hartson, Oakland U Mary Horley, University ofNorth Carolina at Greensboro Melany ...
Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly

Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly

Sue Macy

The life story of this daring news reporter, globetrotter, and advocate for women's rights is presented chronologically from birth to death.
Exploraciones curso intermedio 4LTR press

Exploraciones curso intermedio 4LTR press

Mary Ann Blitt

Mary Ann Blitt, Margarita Casas, Mary T. Copple ... Western Michigan U Mark Harpring, University of Puget Sound Marlene Gottlieb, Manhattan College Mary Hartson, Oakland U Mary Horley, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Melany ...
Mary's Voyage

Mary's Voyage

Mary Caldwell

In Mary's Voyage, we hear the story of Mary Caldwell, the inspiration for John's romantic journey across the sea in a twenty-foot boat.
Nellie Bly, Reporter for the World

Nellie Bly, Reporter for the World

Charles Parlin Graves

A biography of one of the first women reporters, whose trip around the world in less than eighty days made her an international celebrity.
Women, Gender, and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe

Women, Gender, and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe

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... Mary Ward's Institute: the Struggle for Identity (Sydney: Crossing Press, 1997), 191. 2 Margaret Mary Littlehales IBVM, Mary Ward: Pilgrim and Mystic “THEY ARE BUT WOMEN”: MARY WARD, 1585–1645 "They are but Women": Mary Ward, ...
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's ...

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's ...

Matthew Goodman

. . The story of these two pioneering women unfolds amid the excitement, setbacks, crises, missed opportunities and a global trek unlike any other in its time. . .

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