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About Nellie Bly

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...American heroine, Elizabeth Cochran, who was one of the first women journalists. This paper discusses her life, her social and psychological history, and her contributions to journalism.
Discussion
Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Cochran in May, 1865, in a town called Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania (Kendall, 1992). Her father Michael was comfortably off; when he died, his family was not immediately faced with the problem of making a living (Kendall, 1992). Elizabeth's older brothers married and moved away, and she, her mother, and younger sister finally settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the early 1880s (Kendall, 1992). By now the money was getting tight and Elizabeth needed to find work (Kendall, 1992).
Elizabeth never fit the "pattern" to which women of her day were expected to conform. She wasn't interested in cleaning, cooking or doing housework—all of which bored her (as well they might); instead she loved to write stories and read books (Kendall, 1992). She wanted to have the freedom to do the same things her brothers...

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