The two settled upon Nellie Bly, after a popular song by Stephen Foster.Bly came out with guns blazing. From the very beginning, she was determined to write stories that mattered. She had no ...

while testing the journalistic mettle of the intrepid Nellie Bly. Bly would pose as an insane woman and allow herself to be committed to Blackwell's Island -- New York City's notorious asylum.

The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania.

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Actress Caroline Barry (Thtr) was the star of 10 Days in a Madhouse, a 2015 biopic about 19th-century journalist Nellie Bly, who feigned mental illness to report on the happenings within a women’s ...