“There are so many crazy people about, and one can never tell what they will do.”
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Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She ushered in the era of stunt girl reporting and helped advance a…
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business · American investigative journalist (1864–1922) · writer · journalist · novelist · inventor · suffragist · entrepreneur · newspaperperson · traveler · also Nellie Bly, Elly Cochran, Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, Elizabeth Cochran, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane
Born 5 May 1864 · Died 27 January 1922 · Q230299
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2026· 1 entry
2021· 2 entries
Forbes: Nellie Bly Monument To Open On Roosevelt Island
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autoevolution: Nellie Bly Vessel Completes the World's First 1,000-Nautical Mile Autonomous Voyage
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2020· 1 entry
It was awarded to Claudia Irizarry Aponte, of THE CITY
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2019· 4 entries
Hyperallergic: Journalist Nellie Bly Will Receive a Monument on the Grounds of the Asylum She Helped Close
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Monsters and Critics: This is how Escaping The Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story almost ended
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The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation put out an open call for artists to create a Nellie Bly Memorial art installation on Roosevelt Island
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The Center for Investigative Reporting released Nellie Bly Makes the News, a short animated biographical film
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2015· 1 entry
The Google search engine produced an interactive "Google Doodle" for Bly; for the "Google Doodle" Karen O wrote, composed, and recorded an original song about Bly, and Katy Wu created an animation set to Karen O's music
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2007· 1 entry
Under new management, renamed "Adventurers Amusement Park"
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1998).
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Bly was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1922· 1 entry
Died 1922-01-27.
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1920· 1 entry
“s Eastern Front during World War I. Bly was the first woman and one of the first foreigners to visit the war zone between Serbia and Austria. She was arrested when she was mistaken for a British spy. Death Bly died of pneumonia on January 27, 1922, at St. Mark”
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1895· 1 entry
Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman
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1893· 2 entries
Bly used the celebrity status she had gained from her asylum reporting skills to schedule an exclusive interview with the allegedly insane serial killer Lizzie Halliday
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Though still writing novels, she returned to reporting for the World
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1890· 1 entry
Completing her circumnavigation of the globe
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1889· 2 entries
And with two days' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line, and began her 24,898 mile (40,070 kilometer) journey
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Bly wrote an article for the World on learning to ride a bicycle
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1888· 1 entry
Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) into fact for the first time
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1885· 1 entry
A column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch titled "What Girls Are Good For" stated that girls were principally for birthing children and keeping house
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1880· 1 entry
Cochrane's mother moved her family to Allegheny City, which was later annexed by the City of Pittsburgh
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1879· 1 entry
Enrolled at Indiana Normal School (now Indiana University of Pennsylvania) for one term but was forced to drop out due to lack of funds
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1864· 1 entry
Born 1864-05-05.
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