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- Birth nameElizabeth Jane Cochrane Seaman
- Nellie Bly was born on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, USA. Nellie was a writer, known for The Nellie Bly Story (2020). Nellie died on January 27, 1922 in New York, New York, USA.
- Apart from using the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, she also went under variations of her birth name such as Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, Elizabeth Cochran, Elizabeth Jane Cochrane and Elizabeth Cochrane.
- Moved to New York City in 1887 and worked for the "New York World" paper.
- Wrote for the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1885 for $5.00 per week.
- Took the pseudonym of Nellie Bly from the 1850 song of the same name written by Stephen Foster.
- Her father passed away when aged six, leaving no Will, which in turn left the family in financial ruin.
- "Another thing quite as noticeable, I had more men try to get up a flirtation with me while I was a box-factory girl than I ever had before. The girls were nice in their manners and as polite as ones reared at home. They never forgot to thank one another for the slightest service, and there was quite a little air of "good form" in many of their actions. I have seen many worse girls in much higher positions than the white slaves of New York." [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
- A stick beats more ugliness into a person than it ever beats out.
- "I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell." [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
- "What is this place?" I asked of the man, who had his fingers sunk into the flesh of my arm. "Blackwell's Island, an insane place, where you'll never get out of"." [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
- "It is only after one is in trouble that one realises how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world." [Ten Days in a Mad-House].
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