BEWARE!
by Tri Fritz
Just posted... Nellie uses her column to expose a popular scam of the day. In "Working Girls Beware," poor women are enticed - for a fee - to take scarf-making classes with the promise of work after completion. The promises turn out to be bogus. Nellie interviews a number of the scammed women to expose the fraud and save others from losing their money.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NELLIE!!!
by Tri Fritz
It was on May 5th in 1864 that this website's namesake was born. Who could have imagined what would follow?! As a birthday gift, I am adding another Nellie Bly article to the site. Take a look at NELLIE BLY WITH THE FEMALE SUFFRAGISTS in the "Her Writing" section. It is an account of one of the early meetings of the organized suffragette movement, presided over by Susan B. Anthony…
NELLIE BLY IS IN JAIL!
by Tri Fritz
I've just added a new article, "Nellie Bly In Jail" to the HER WRITING section of the site. I've also added some commentary on the article to the blogging section. Check them out and let me know what you think!
THE ALCHEMY OF MURDER
by Carol McCleary
(2010) A NELLIE BLY NOVEL! Paris 1889. The Alchemist is how I've come to think of him; he has a passion for the dark side of knowledge, mixing murder and madness with science. Nellie Bly - reporter, feminist and amateur detective - is in Paris on the trail of an enigmatic killer. The city is a dangerous place: an epidemic of Black Fever rages, anarchists plot to overthrow the government…
BYLINES: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY OF NELLIE BLY
by Sue Macy
(2009) Starred Review. Grades 4 to 6. The life story of this daring news reporter, globetrotter, and advocate for women's rights is presented chronologically from birth to death. By seamlessly weaving her subject's accomplishments as a national figure with her personal life, Macy offers a masterful account of how Bly and turn-of-the-century American society shaped one another. There is at least one period photo, map, or artifact per spread, as…
THE DARING NELLIE BLY: AMERICA’S STAR REPORTER
by Bonnie Christensen
(2009) Grades 3 to 5. This picture book for older readers tells Nellie Bly's fabulous story: a riches-to-rags childhood; a job at the Pittsburgh Dispatch when no woman had such a thing; a move to New York, where she went undercover in an insane asylum and then wrote the story for the New York World. She bested the fictional hero Jules Verne by going around the world--alone-- in 72 days,…
2010 NELLIE BLY AWARD!
Posted by Tri Fritz on June 06 2010
Every year The New York Press Club hands out the NELLIE BLY CUB REPORTER AWARD. The award goes to "the best journalistic effort by a reporter with three years or less professional experience." This year's recipient is:
PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION
Posted by Tri Fritz on May 27 2010
On March 2, 1999, President Bill Clinton expanded "Women's History Week" to "Women's History Month," and did so by invoking the memory and accomplishments of Nellie Bly. Included here is the text for Proclamation 7170:
“WORKING GIRLS BEWARE” COMMENTS
Posted by Tri Fritz on May 11 2010
This article is not only a good example of Nellie's own work, but of the impact that Nellie was having upon her readers.
