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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

And Other Writings

Nellie Bly Jean Lutes Maureen Corrigan Jean M Lutes

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Penguin Classics
27 March 2013
"In advance of the 150th anniversary of her birth, a collection of work by Nellie Bly, the first and best of the gutsy late-nineteenth-century journalists known as ""girl stunt reporters,"" with a foreword from NPR Fresh Air's book critic, Maureen Corrigan

The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalist

Born 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 expose 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 collection of Bly's writings, includes her best known works-TenDays in a Mad-House,Six Months in Mexico, andAround the World in Seventy-Two Days-as well as many lesser known pieces that capture the breadth of her career from her fierce opinion pieces to her remarkable World War I reporting. As 2014 marks the 150th anniversary of Bly's birth, this collection celebrates her work, spirit, and vital place in history.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators."

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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   261g
ISBN:   9780143107408
ISBN 10:   0143107402
Pages:   368
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Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 psychiatric facility. Jean M. Lutes is an associate professor of English and director of academics for Gender and Women's Studies at Villanova University.

Reviews for Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings

Absolutely fantastic...superb in its entirety --Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A classic from one of the first prominent female journalists in America. --Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine Splendid...The only thing unbelievable about Nellie Bly is that it's taken this long for her work to be recognized--and with a life story this rich, where is the biopic? Thanks to this new collection at least, Bly's life work will be accessible for a whole new world of readers. -- The Daily Beast From the start, Bly is a natural writer. Her voice is caustic and confident, lilting effortlessly between the gush and private wonder of a schoolgirl's diary and the rigor of the most celebrated political reporters of her time. -- The New Inquiry If you've never read any of 19th-century journalist Nellie Bly's work, this is the place to start. And if you're a longtime fan of the first 'girl stunt reporter, ' this is definitely a tome worth adding to your library.... [Bly] made indelible observations about a woman's place in the world that are no less valuable today than they were 150 years ago. -- Bust Magazine The editing is outstanding, providing the backstory for this important but all too often neglected figure in American journalism. -- Huntington News


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