I knew the name "Nellie Bly," but knew zero about her. Very informative. This is amazing...
Bly’s work was investigative and groundbreaking, and the response that the paper received from her columns led to her career taking off. She served as a foreign correspondent at the age of 21, covering Mexican politics and culture, and her work, which was published later in a book, upset many government officials in Mexico because she sympathized with those whose voices were being suppressed by the country’s dictator.Just imagine, sending a 21 year old woman in 1885 to be a foreign correspondent!
Lots of parallels with her Mexican journalism to today...a lot of rabble rousers are upsetting the dictators (corporate and government) in the USA and Canada.
Stephen Foster wrote a song about Nellie Bly. We had a Nell at our nursing home to whom I used to sing “Nellie Bly” when I gave her her meds. lol