Title: Nellie Bly
Digital ID: 3b07664
URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b07664
Description: “Born May 5, 1864, to Judge Michael Cochran and Mary Jane Kennedy, part of the large Cochran family of Apollo, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Jane Cochrane revolutionized journalism for women. She is better known by her pen name, "Nellie Bly," which she took from a Stephen Foster song by that name. Daring and innovative, she gained world fame when she beat Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg's record for traveling around the world in 80 days by more than a week, departing on November 14, 1889 and returning to New York on January 25, 1890.”