Nellie Bly

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Nellie Bly.

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Dates

• Born: Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. 5 May 1864.
• Died: New York City, New York. 27 January 1922.

Bio Facts

• Born Elizabeth Jane Cochrane.
• Began her carrer as newspaper reporter for the Pittsburg Dispatch.
• Her married name was Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman.
• She took her writer's name from a Stephen Foster song, "Nellie Bly."
• 1889: Made trip around the world.

For Further Reading

• "The Actual Time Was 57 Days." [Her trip around the world.]

  The Pittsburgh Press, 26 January 1890.

  Antell, Joan.

  "Nellie Bly to Be Subject of One-Woman Show:

  'It's the Kind of Challenge I Love."

  Norwalk Weekly Trader, 23 March 1978, 3, 7.

  "Area's Nellie Bly Honored in N.Y."

  The Pittsburgh Press, 23 June 1978, A10.

  Around the World in 72 Days. [Videorecording.]

  Written, produced and directed by Christine Lesiak.

  [Alexandria, Va.? : distributed by PBS Home Video], c1997.

  Baker, Nina Brown.

  Nellie Bly.

  New York: Holt, [c1956].

  Bear, David.

  "Around the World with Jules Verne and Nellie Bly."

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 14 November 1999, F2.

  Bergman, Carol and Muriel Nussbaum.

  "Nellie Bly:

  Circling the World Alone at the Age of Twenty-five,

  This Daring Nineteenth-Century Journalist Challenged the Legendary

  Record of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg--and Won."

  American History Illustrated (March 1987): 23+.

  Bucsko, Mike.

  "Apollo to Honor Nellie Bly."

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 19 July 1995, C3.

  "Byline: Nellie Bly: A Performance by Muriel Nussbaum." [Flyer.]

  Norwalk, CT: Muriel Nussbaum, [1981].

  Burke, Evelyn.

  "Nellie Bly Started This Globe Girdling."

  The Pittsburgh Press, 31 October 1936.

  Davidson, Sue.

  Getting the Real Story: Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells.

  Seattle: Seal Press, 1992.

  Ehrlich, Elizabeth.

  Nellie Bly.

  New York: Chelsea House Publishers, c1989.

  "Grand Niece, 10, of Nellie Bly Hopes to 'Fly Around World':

  50 Years Ago Today Noted Writer Ended Tour of Globe."

  Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 25 January 1940.

  Graves, Charles Parlin.

  Nellie Bly: Reporter for the World.

  Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub. Co., [1971].

  Hahn, Emily.

  Around the World with Nellie Bly.

  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.

  "Home Again:

  Nellie Bly Reaches Her Native City This Morning:

  Welcomed at the Depot:

  By Many of Her Old Newspaper Associates in Pittsburgh:

  Counts Herself a Winner:

  Hearty Welcomes Given the Bright Globe-Trotter All Along the Line

  And Lots of Hand-Shaking

  Nellie Mourns the Ill-Health of the Monkey Given Her at Singapore--

  Sketch of the Rivals in the Long-Distance Go-As-You-Please Race."

  Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, 25 January 1890.

  Kershner, Mary Culp.

  "Pioneer in Big Business Also Describes Miss Bly."

  News-Citizen, 27 October 1978 (Kiski Weekend magazine).

  Kimbrough, Mary.

  "Nellie Bly...'Carry Nation with a Quill.'"

  The Pittsburgh Press, 13 March 1977, 10-11. [Sunday magazine.]

  Kroeger, Brooke.

  Nellie Bly: Daredevil Reporter, Feminist.

  New York: Times Books, c1994.

  Marino, M.

  "Our Resident Curmudgeon." [Regarding Tom Hritz; Letter to the Editor.]

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10 July 1995.

  Merriman, Woodene.

  "The Adventures of Nellie Bly:

  A New Biography of One of Pittsburgh's Most Famous Women Takes

  Woodene Merriman Back to Journalism's Heydey." [Review.]

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 27 March 1994, F5-F6.

  "Nellie Bly Coming Home."

  News-Citizen, 27 October 1978 (Kiski Weekend magazine).

  "Nellie Bly 'Lives Again' in 'Good Housekeeping.'"

  Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 20 January 1955.

  "Nellie Bly, Noted Newspaper Writer, Succumbs in New York:

  Pneumonia Fatal to Reporter Who Made Spectacular Trip Around World:

  Started in Pittsburgh."

  Pittsburgh Gazette Times, 28 January 1922, 7.

  "Nellie Bly [...] Bountiful:

  Presents Each of Her 1,200 Employees with Christmas Basket,

  Which Contains Provisions for a Family."

  [Brooklyn N.Y Eagle], 24 December 1905.

  "Nellie Bly: The World's Reporter (1867-1922) [sic]."

  In The Old Farmer's Almanac,

  239+. Dublin, NH: Old Farmer's Almanac, 1995.

  "Nelly [sic] Meets Her Mother:

  The Time of Her Trip Was 72 Days, 6 Hours and 11 Minutes."

  The Pittsburgh Press, 26 January 1890.

  Noble, Iris.

  Nellie Bly: First Woman Reporter.

  New York: Julian Messner, [c1956].

  Rittenhouse, Mignon.

  The Amazing Nellie Bly.

  Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, [1971, c1956].

  Rittenhouse, Mignon.

  "They Called Her the Amazing Nellie Bly."

  Good Housekeeping (February 1955): 48+.

  Sachs, Sylvia.

  "One-Woman Show Puts Spotlight on Nellie Bly."

  The Pittsburgh Press, 15 October 1982, B4.

  "The Saga of Nellie Bly."

  Pennsylvania Illustrated (October-November 1976): 9-12.

  "The Saga of Nellie Bly to Come Alive at Library."

  Trumbull Times, 1 November 1979.

  Speer, Kenneth.

  "Pittsburgh Day by Day: Nellie Bly Circles Globe."

  Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 16 March 1949.

  "Steel Works Xmas Feast:

  Mrs. Seaman, Who Was 'Nellie Bly,' Supervises Rejoicing of Her Employees."

  [New York Times], 24 December 1905.

  Swetnam, George.

  "Forgotten Friendship:

  Nellie Bly Poured out Her Heart for Years to

  The Quiet Observer [Erasmus Wilson] in Times of Victory and of Defeat

  But They Never Were Married."

  The Pittsburgh Press, 15 January 1967, 8-9. [Sunday magazine.]

  Swetnam, George.

  "The Lost Letters of Nellie Bly:

  Correspondence with Local Columnist [Erasmus Wilson] Offers Many Surprises."

  The Pittsburgh Press, 8 January 1967, 4-5. [Sunday magazine.]

  Sykes, Edward C.

  "Sykes Recalls Nellie Bly's Great Race."

  Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 14 November 1939.

  "200 at Ceremony." [Dedication of monument to Nellie Bly.]

  News-Citizen, 3 November 1978 (Kiski Weekend magazine).

  Uricchio, Marylynn.

  "She Has the Scoop on Nellie Bly." [One-woman show.]

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 19 October 1982, 29-30.

  Vollmer, Judy.

  "Nellie Bly Tribute: Rock for the Ages."

  The Pittsburgh Press, 25 October 1978, A16.

  Walker, Frances.

  "Nellie Bly Remembered:

  Relatives Proud of Aunt Pink."

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 16 November 1966, 14.

  "What's in a Name?"

  News-Citizen, 28 October 1978 (Kiski Weekend magazine).

  "World Traveler's Kin Shuns Life of Reporter."

  Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 22 January 1950.

  [No Title.]

  Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, 15 March 1949.