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This is a four part series running through the month of March. You might want to check out part 1!
Here it is, another Tuesday in March and it is time for delicious tidbits about this week’s focus for Nation Women’s History Month, Miss Nellie Bly. If you’d like to make fun of my failures and get the background info then please feel free. I can take it!
Nellie Bly is know for two things: getting herself locked up in an asylum for women and her record breaking trip around the world.
No, she wasn’t crazy. Well, ok, maybe. Female journalists during the 1880’s were definitely a breed all their own. What set Nellie apart was that she successfully got herself commited to an asylum for 10 days and exposed all their dirty little secrets! Like cold water baths, being left to sit on wooden benches for 8 hours a day, spoiled meat and beatings. Her expose was successfully published as Ten Days in a Mad House. How could that not make a mother proud? All silliness aside I’d be proud of my child if they successfully saw the budget for such public needs increase by $850K in that day and age.
That around-the-world record breaking trip of 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds isn’t very well known since it was broken just a few months later by about 13 days. All in the name of journalism!
Wikipedia says Nellie added the “e” to her name for sophistication. Hmmm, I think I might give it a try.
Nibbling away -
Sundie
[...] is a four part series running through the month of March. You might want to check out part 2 and part [...]
[...] is a four part series running through the month of March. You might want to check out part 3, part 2 and part 1! Woohooo! We are wrapping up March and National Women’s History Month! My [...]