Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane), a pioneer woman…

November 1889 CE

Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane), a pioneer woman journalist inspired by Jules Verne,  begins an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than eighty days on November 14, 1888. (Bly will finish the journey in seventy-two days, six hours and eleven minutes).

In 1888 Bly had suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time.

A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice, she boards the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line, and begins her 40,070 kilometer journey.

She takes with her the dress she is wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of underwear, and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry essentials.

She carries most of her money (£200 in English bank notes and gold, as well as some American currency) in a bag tied around her neck.

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Nellie Bly (Pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman), (1867-1922); head and shoulders Date circa 1890

Nellie Bly (Pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman), (1867-1922); head and shoulders Date circa 1890

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