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Nellie Bly
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Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly was the pen name of pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She remains notable for two feats: a record-breaking trip around the world in emulation of Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg (Bly completed the trip in seventy-two days), and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. In addition to her writing, she was also an industrialist and charity worker. Bly died of pneumonia at St. Mark's Hospital in New York City in 1922 aged 57.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
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CrushedUnderAStackOfBookshas quoted2 years ago
I insisted on sitting on the side of the bed and staring blankly at vacancy. My poor companion was put into a wretched state of unhappiness.
CrushedUnderAStackOfBookshas quoted2 years ago
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
CrushedUnderAStackOfBookshas quotedlast month
As I passed a low pavilion, where a crowd of helpless lunatics were confined, I read a motto on the wall, "While I live I hope." The absurdity of it struck me forcibly. I would have liked to put above the gates that open to the asylum, "He who enters here leaveth hope behind."

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