Liz and Nellie

Liz and Nellie
Author: Shonna Slayton
Publisher: Amaretto Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2016-04-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0997449918

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Victorian Race Around the World: Two women reporters try to beat Jules Verne's record. New York City, November 14, 1889. Young newspaper reporter Nellie Bly sets sail on the Augusta Victoria for a trip around the world. She plans to beat Jules Verne's fictional record from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days. She thinks she can circumnavigate the globe in under seventy-five days, and prove that a woman can do what no man has even tried. Hours later, and unbeknownst to Nellie, another writer, Elizabeth Bisland boards a train going in the opposite direction attempting to beat Nellie back to New York. Elizabeth is a reluctant player in this high-stakes publicity stunt, but financial needs outweigh her pride. Neither woman is prepared for what will happen on this trip, or how the race will change her. This fascinating novel covers these historical topics and more: - early women reporters - travel during Victorian times - includes Nellie Bly's visit with Jules Verne, himself

Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly
Author: Stephen Krensky
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2003-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0689855737

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Nellie Bly wasn't always Nellie Bly. First she was Elizabeth Cochrane, a shy girl from Cochran's Mill, Pennsylvania. All her life Elizabeth had been told, 'girls can't do this' and 'girls can't do that.' But Elizabeth didn't believe it ... so one day she set out to prove it ...

Eighty Days

Eighty Days
Author: Matthew Goodman
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0345527267

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Documents the 1889 competition between feminist journalist Nellie Bly and Cosmopolitan reporter Elizabeth Bishop to beat Jules Verne's record and each other in a round-the-globe race, offering insight into their respective daunting challenges as recorded in their reports sent back home. 50,000 first printing.

Six Months in Mexico

Six Months in Mexico
Author: Nellie Bly
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2022-05-28
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

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Six Months in Mexico is a book by an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker Nellie Bly. She wrote this book after her travels through Mexico in about 1885. In the book, she describes the lives and customs of the people of Mexico, their poverty, the widespread addiction to playing the lottery, courtship, wedding ceremonies, the popularity of tobacco smoking, and the habits of the soldiers, including an early mention of their marijuana use.

Nellie Wants to Know

Nellie Wants to Know
Author: Liz Huyck
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: Journalists
ISBN: 9781642622225

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The Collected Works of Nellie Bly. Illustrated

The Collected Works of Nellie Bly. Illustrated
Author: Nellie Bly
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Nellie Bly (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran) was an American journalist, writer, and entrepreneur. She made a name for herself and pioneered the field of investigative journalism by writing an undercover expose on a woman’s lunatic asylum. Her colorful and hands-on reporting style earned her the nickname of “girl stunt reporter.” In 1889 she pitched the idea of a trip around the world to her editor. In the spirit of Jules Verne’s character Phileas Fogg, Bly proposed she could circle the globe in less than 80 days. On November 14, 1889, Nellie achieved her goal, having circled the globe in exactly 72 days, 6 hours, and 10 minutes. During her trip, Bly visited England, and France (where she met with Jules Verne), as well as Italy, the Suez Canal, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. Six Months in Mexico

Only in Spain

Only in Spain
Author: Nellie Bennett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1402293879

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Why don't' you...run away with the gypsies? Ten-hour shifts in a high-end department store and catering to snooty customers...Nellie Bennett's life wasn't supposed to turn out this way. But maybe all she needs to do is infuse a little passion into her routine—through flamenco dance lessons, for instance. What Nellie doesn't realize is that flamenco is not just a dance—it's a way of life that seems much more enticing than her depressing retail gig. So she packs her suede dance shoes and leaves everything she knows behind, flying halfway around the world to seek the authentic experience in Seville, where the dark-eyed gypsy boys and mouth-watering tapas are enough to make Nellie want to stay in Spain forever. And why shouldn't she? Only in Spain is a foot-stomping, full-on firecracker of a memoir—crackling with energy, food, dance, gypsies, and love—that will capture your heart with the first "Olé!" "A vivid, entertaining memoir...Bennett had me itching to pack my bag and join her."—Ann Vanderhoof, author of An Embarrassment of Mangoes and The Spice Necklace

A Picture of Hope

A Picture of Hope
Author: Liz Tolsma
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636090214

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A Photojournalist Risks Her Life to Save a Very Special Child Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this series celebrates the unsung heroes—the heroines of WWII. Journalist Nellie Wilkerson has spent the bulk of the war in London, photographing mothers standing in milk lines—and she’s bored. She jumps at the chance to go to France, where the Allied forces recently landed. There she enlists Jean-Paul Breslau of the French underground to take her to the frontlines. On the journey, they stumble upon a great tragedy, leaving a girl with special needs being orphaned. Can Nellie and Jean-Paul see the child to a safe haven while being pursued by the Nazis, who are pressed by the advancing Allies and determined to destroy all they can before they flee?

Shrewed

Shrewed
Author: Elizabeth Renzetti
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018-03-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1487003056

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Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it’s the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan’s playground? These are some of the questions that bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines in her new collection of original essays. Drawing upon her decades of reporting on feminist issues, Shrewed is a book about feminism’s crossroads. From Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign to the quest for equal pay, from the lessons we can learn from old ladies to the future of feminism in a turbulent world, Renzetti takes a pointed, witty look at how far we’ve come — and how far we have to go. If Nellie McClung and Erma Bombeck had an IVF baby, this book would be the result. If they’d lived at the same time. And in the same country. And if IVF had been invented. Well, you get the point.

Who Was Nellie Bly?

Who Was Nellie Bly?
Author: Margaret Gurevich
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536465921

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Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman had no idea that the open letter she'd written to a local newspaper in Pittsburgh in 1885 would change her life forever. The editor of the paper was so impressed with her writing, that he offered her a job! She'd later chang