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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 ...
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  ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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  ...
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, ...
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.
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.
Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly

Pen name of American pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran.
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
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.
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.
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. . .
Pulitzer: A Life

Pulitzer: A Life

Denis Brian

9. waiter rushed upstairs Brooke Kroeger, Nellie Bly, Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (New York: Times Books, 1994), p. 136. 142 But one who signed himself World, November 10, 1889, p. 27. “God grant that this structure” Don Carlos Seitz,  ...
Democracy’s Detectives

Democracy’s Detectives

James T. Hamilton

See also Brooke Kroeger, Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (New York: Times Books, 1994), and Brooke Kroeger, Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2012). 5. George  ...
Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of ...

Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of ...

Deborah Noyes

“Write up things as you find them, good or bad . . . truth all the time”: Around the World in SeventyTwo Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly, edited by Jean Marie Lutes, p. 19. “Energy rightly applied and directed . . . anything”: Kroeger, p. 85.
Nellie McClung, the Complete Autobiography

Nellie McClung, the Complete Autobiography

Nellie L. McClung

Nellie McClung's two-volume autobiography provides a remarkable and very readable account of a truly extraordinary life. With her fine eye for detail, she makes the Canada of her time come vividly alive for readers.
Annual Report

Annual Report

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... Nellie Eleanora Campbell, Flora E. Cole, Mercedes Ruby Corbin, Mary Esther Davis, Virgie V. Davis, Effie B. Davison, Mary ... Helen Houser, Mathilde Hungelmann, Edith Virginia Hunter, Nellie A. Innis, Almeda A. Jones, Mamie Kerr , Lilian ...
Copper Hill

Copper Hill

Stephen Bly

Copper Hill paints a compelling picture of a family in the process of dealing with circumstances that seem out of control.
My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories

My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories

Carol Bly

A collection of stories set in the Upper Midwest introduces a cast of characters who are products of their environment, but stand apart slightly from their world. Original.

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