Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings
The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalistBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first and best female journalists in America and quickly became a national phenomenon in the late 1800s, with a board game based on her adventures and merchandise inspired by the clothes she wore. Bly gained fame for being the first girl stunt reporter, writing stories that no one at the time thought a woman could or should write, including an exposé of patient treatment at an insane asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world without a chaperone. This volume, the only printed and edited colle…
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Weitere Autoren: Lutes, Jean Marie / Lutes, Jean Marie / Lutes, Jean Marie / Corrigan, Maureen
- ISBN: 978-0-14-310740-8
- EAN: 9780143107408
- Produktnummer: 15183162
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.3 cm x D1.7 cm 276 g
- Gewicht: 276
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Nellie Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (1864-1922), an American journalist best known for her record-breaking trip around the world and her controversial undercover investigation of Bellevue Hospital's insane asylum.Jean M. Lutes is an associate professor of English and director of academics for Gender and Women's Studies at Villanova University.Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, a lecturer at Georgetown University, and the author of the literary memoir, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading! She lives in Washington, D.C.
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