Annie Sullivan: A Portrait

In the 1880's proper young ladies weren't found in newsrooms, nor in many of the other places Nellie Bly found herself. But Nellie wasn't interested in what was she was interested in becoming a newspaper reporter and in fact, became one of the best reporters in the country before she was twenty-one, the amazement of everyone, including her editor, Joseph Pulitzer. Her exiting career led her into many adventures-one was having herself committed to a mentally ill. Her best-known feat was an around-the-world race with Jules Verne's fictitious character Phineas Fogg, which, of course she won. Nellie entered a man's world of newspaper reporting and left the door open for the other women to follow.