1864-1922

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1864-1922

Eighty days

Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world
2013
Recounts the race between newspaper reporters Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, to travel around the world in eighty days or less on their own in 1889.

The illusion of murder

2011
Victorian Age detective, reporter, and feminist Nellie Bly accepts Jules Verne's challenge to beat his record of traveling around the world in eighty days, but must call her investigative skills into play when murder seems to plague her journey.

Getting the real story

Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells
1992
Parallel biographies of two women who used their journalistic skills to fight against unjust treatment based on sex and race in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

Nellie Bly's book

around the world in 72 days
1998
An abridged version of the famous woman journalist's experiences as she tries to make a trip around the world in less than eighty days in the late nineteenth century.

Nellie Bly's monkey

his remarkable story in his own words
1996
McGinty the monkey and his new owner, a woman journalist, travel from Singapore to New York where he finally takes up residence at the Menagerie.

Nellie Bly

1989
Follows the life of the celebrated reporter, from her early days to her trip around the world and later triumphs.

Nellie Bly

first woman of the news
1978
A biography of one of the first women reporters, whose trip around the world in less than 80 days made her an international celebrity.

The value of fairness

the story of Nellie Bly
1977
Demonstrates the value of fairness in the life of the turn-of-the-century journalist whose pen name was Nellie Bly.

Nellie Bly

a name to be reckoned with
2003
A biography of journalist Nellie Bly, who proved that women could be newspaper reporters.

Stop the presses, Nellie's got a scoop!

a story of Nellie Bly
1992
Recounts the events in the life of the crusading reporter.

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