Search results
2 days ago · Nellie Bly's travel adventures inspired a board game. Two years later, Nellie got Joseph Pulitzer to fund a trip around the world. She planned to follow the footsteps of the fictional Phileas Fogg, hero of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
4 days ago · She expressed pride in her assignment to the city desk and not to the stunt girl arena, where famed investigative journalist Nellie Bly and her imitators—to their credit—carved out the only place to date where “girl reporters” could build big-bylined reputations off the women’s pages.
2 days ago · An opera based on the life of Nellie Bly, co-commissioned by Toronto’s Tapestry Opera, has won the award for Best New Opera from the Music Critic’s Association of North America (MCANA). The award for the opera Ten Days in a Madhouse will be given to American composer Rene Orth, and University of Toronto graduate librettist Hannah Moscovitch on July 26 at the annual MCANA meeting.
1 day ago · Forster adds in real descriptions by Nellie Bly that add colour, warmth and feeling to the world that Phileas Fogg barely stops to even look at, meaning that the audience feels they have been to ...
2 days ago · The original book 10 Days in a Madhouse, published in 1887, established the reputation of Nellie Bly, pen name for “stunt girl” journalist Elizabeth Cochrane. She was only 22 when she was assigned to go undercover for The New York World to investigate conditions in an insane asylum for women.
2 days ago · 10 Days in a Madhouse is a psychological opera inspired by the life of Nellie Bly, a trailblazing reporter who, in 1887, faked madness in order to be admitted to Blackwell’s Asylum for the Insane and to report on conditions from the inside.
2 days ago · A vintage copy of Nancy Drew’s The Secret of the Old Clock and Eighty Days, and a nonfiction account of journalist Nellie Bly’s journey around the world inspired by Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days. What scene in your book was your favorite to write?
