Elizabeth Cochran Seaman

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Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was a pioneering American investigative journalist famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world.

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instanceOf feminist
human
industrialist
investigative journalist
philanthropist
reporter
suffragist
writer
alsoKnownAs Nellie Bly
awardReceived induction into National Women's Hall of Fame
birthName Elizabeth Jane Cochran
causeOfDeath pneumonia
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
date 1887
1889-11-14
1890-01-25
dateOfBirth 1864-05-05
dateOfDeath 1922-01-27
dateOfMarriage 1895
employer New York Evening Journal
New York World
Pittsburgh Dispatch
eventDescription departed New York to attempt to beat Phileas Fogg's fictional 80-day record
published series 'Ten Days in a Mad-House' based on asylum investigation
returned to New York after 72-day world trip
fieldOfWork investigative journalism
social reform
women's rights
influenced development of stunt journalism
influencedBy Around the World in 80 Days
surface form: Jules Verne's novel 'Around the World in Eighty Days'
knownFor exposé of Blackwell's Island insane asylum
record-setting trip around the world in 72 days
undercover investigative journalism
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement progressive era reform
name Elizabeth Cochran Seaman NERFINISHED
notableEvent circumnavigated the globe in 72 days
feigned insanity to investigate conditions at Blackwell's Island asylum
notableWork Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Six Months in Mexico
Ten Days in a Mad-House
occupation businesswoman
inventor
journalist
newspaper reporter
writer
penName Nellie Bly
placeOfBirth Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, United States
surface form: Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania
placeOfDeath New York City
residence New York City
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
sexOrGender female
spouse Robert Livingston Seaman NERFINISHED

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