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In 1885, the pittsburg dispatch published a letter from an anxious father, wondering what to do with his five unmarried daughters, alongside a response from columnist erasmus wilson entitled. Pittsburgh international airport to install nellie bly. After working for the pittsburgh dispatch for a few years, bly got the dangerous assignment to infiltrate the. This song wasnt written about our worldtraveling nellie bly, but it was the inspiration for her name. It was for the dispatch that she began using the pen name nellie bly, borrowed from a popular stephen foster song. Two years later, bly moved to new york city and began working for the new york world. Roosevelt islands nellie bly memorial revealed 6sqft. At the age of twentyfive, nellie bly may 5, 1864january 27, 1922 did. She began her career in 1885 in her native pennsylvania as a reporter for the pittsburgh dispatch, to which she had sent an angry letter to the editor in response.

Statues of franco harris and george washington at pittsburgh international airport in. A nellie bly statue will join franco harris and george washington at the pittsburgh international airport. After being enlarged by publisher daniel oneill it was reportedly one of the largest and most prosperous newspapers in the united states. He hired the writer and gave her the pen name nelly bly, from a popular stephen. While a reporter for the pittsburgh dispatch, she took nellie bly as her pen name. How nellie bly went undercover to expose abuse of the. The piece criticized passionate women who desired an education or a career. A drawing of elizabeth from the pittsburgh dispatch. Nellie bly, investigative reporter pittsburgh postgazette. Nellie bly exposed a new york insane asylums horrors. Bly was born elizabeth jane cochran in what is now armstrong county and worked as a reporter with the pittsburgh dispatch when she took her pen name. In 1885, nellie bly came across an article in the pittsburgh dispatch called what girls are good for. Two years later, bly moved to new york city and began working for the. The story that launched nellie blys famed journalism.

The woman who exposed 19thcentury new yorks inhumane. Matthews work is named the girl puzzle, after bly s first published words in the pittsburgh dispatch in 1885. Before nellie blys 10 days in a madhouse there was the. In 1885 pink read a newspaper column in the pittsburgh dispatch entitled what girls are good for. The man even evoked chinas thenpolicy of killing female babies, intimating that such an act would allegedly. Nellie bly statue joining franco, george washington at. The newly anointed nellie began writing about ordinary life and eventually turned her attention to working women. Bly began her journalistic career in 1880 at the age of 16, writing womens columns on home, hearth, gardening, society and childrearing for the pittsburgh dispatch. So, the dispatch moved nellie bly over to the womens section, and assigned her to write about girl stuff like which kind of teacup patterns go best with your drapes and what ten sex things are going to drive your man wild in bed.

Pittsburgh dispatch signaled the very beginning of elizabeth. Bly rose to fame as a reporter for the new york world, when she went undercover as a patient at the blackwells. When she went undercover in a new york city insane asylum in 1887, nellie bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. The pittsburgh dispatch offered pink the pen name nellie bly after the character in a song written 35 years earlier by another famous pittsburgher, stephen foster. The nellie bly song american experience official site. A pioneering female journalist from western pennsylvania will take her place next to a former president and a football hero at pittsburgh international airport. From 1880 to 1887 native of nearby cochrans mills, nellie bly worked for the dispatch writing investigative articles on female factory workers, and later reported from mexico as a foreign correspondent. Nearly all night long i listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg.

Nellie bly, a pioneer of womens rights, champion of the working class, a voice for the institutionalized and a recordsetting world traveler, was born may 5. An insane asylum is no place for a lady makayla atkins. The pittsburgh dispatch was a leading newspaper in pittsburgh, operating from 1846 to 1923. The story that launched nellie blys famed journalism career. At a time when a womans contribution to a newspaper was generally confined to the womens pages, cochrane was given a rare opportunity to report on wider issues. The original nellie bly, was stephen foster, a famous american songwriter. The paper was politically independent and was particularly known.

Pittsburgh dispatch edit as a writer nellie bly focused her early work for the pittsburgh dispatch on the lives of working women, writing a series of investigative articles on women factory workers. The article implied women were only adept at raising children. The story that launched nellie bly s famed journalism career. Happy birthday to one of pennsylvanias most famous and.

As a writer nellie bly focused her early work for the pittsburgh dispatch on the lives of working women, writing a series of. In 1885, the pittsburg dispatch published a letter from an anxious father, wondering what to do with his five unmarried daughters, alongside. She began her journalism career as a reporter for the pittsburgh dispatch. In 1885, the pittsburg dispatch published a letter from an anxious father. Its unsurprising, then, that blys trailblazing, eradefying career in journalism began at the tender age of twenty, when she responded to a patronizing letter from the father of five girls published in her hometown newspaper, the pittsburg dispatch, under the headline what girls are good for the unsubtly implied answer being birthing babies and tending households. Bly was born in 1864 as elizabeth jane cochran near presentday burrell township in armstrong county. Her first articles, on conditions among working girls in pittsburgh, slum life, and other similar topics, marked her as a reporter of ingenuity and concern.