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The Woman Who Traveled Around The World In 72 Days
Nellie Bly isn’t a common name often heard in our history books, but maybe she should be
“Impossible, was the terrible verdict,” she recalled. “‘In the first place you are a woman and would need a protector, and even if it were possible for you to travel alone you would need to carry so much baggage that it would detain you in making rapid changes,” Nellie Bly said.
We all know Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic book where the main character, Phileas Fogg of London, flew around the world in 80 days. It was published in 1872. But not much longer after Verne published the book, a woman named Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, known by her pen name as a famous journalist, Nellie Bly, flew around the world in 72 days herself. It would be only 16 years later in 1888.
Who was Nellie Bly?
