Nellie Bly - (14) ~ by SaralynArati

SaralynArati

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Thanks, NightOwl!! I appreciate all your hard work in evaluating all of these dolls!!

8 years ago

NightOwl

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She was a very awesome woman! very cool choice! ACCURACY: 10 points. INRICACY: 7 points. DESCRIPTION: 10 points. TOTAL: 27 points. :)

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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Thanks very much, kittty!!! Coming from you, that's high praise, since you always make such gorgeous dresses yourself!!

8 years ago

kittty12

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Intresting storry .a verry beautiful dress too :)))))

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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Thanks so much, launing!! I found her to be an interesting woman, too!

8 years ago

launing

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Very interesting!

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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Sorry Moonlava, I always talk too much.

8 years ago

Moonlava208

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2 many readz 4 meez

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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In 1895 Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman. Bly was then 31 and Seaman was 73. She retired from journalism and became the president of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co. Bly was also an inventor, receiving patents for a novel milk can and a stacking garbage can. During World War I she wrote stories on Europe's Eastern Front, and notably covered the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913. Bly died of pneumonia at age 57. In 1998 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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She took with her only the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of underwear, and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry essentials. She carried most of her money (200 pounds in English bank notes and gold, as well as some American currency) in a bag tied around her neck. Bly travelled using steamships and the existing railroad systems, which caused occasional setbacks, but just over 72 days after her departure, she had circumnavigated the globe, largely traveling alone.

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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Her report, later published in book form as "Ten Days in a Mad-House", caused a sensation and brought her lasting fame. It also prompted serious reforms in the care of the mentally ill. In 1888 Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional "Around the World in Eighty Days" into fact. A year later, with two days notice, she began her 24,899-mile journey, sending short progress reports by telegraph and submarine cables.

8 years ago

SaralynArati

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In 1887 she took an undercover assignment for Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World, to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. After a night of practicing deranged expressions she pretended to have amnesia. Several doctors then examined her; all declared her insane. Committed to the asylum, Bly experienced its conditions firsthand, which were deplorable. After ten days the asylum released Bly at The World newspaper's behest.

8 years ago