Nellie Bly, pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochran
(1864-1922)
-Began reporting for a Pittsburgh newspaper on women’s issues (divorce, factory work) as a teenager
-Went undercover as a mental patient, leading to changes in how the mentally ill were treated
-Achieved a world record by travelling around the world in seventy two days
-Retired from journalism at 30 to marry a millionaire industrialist
-Took over her husband’s factory after his death
-Invented a type of milk can and a type of garbage can
-Returned to journalism in her 50s, her reporting on the outbreak of WWI made her the US’s first female war correspondent
(via beards-are-awesome)
