eighty days - nellie bly and elizabeth bislands history making race around the world

[...].. .The World s front-page article revealing Nellie Bly s plan to race around the world Instantly he recognized the publicity value of such a scheme, even as it occurred to him that a world traveler might do better by heading west rather than east as Bly was planning to do At once an idea suggested itself: The Cosmopolitan would sponsor its own competitor in the around- the- world race, traveling in the. .. had—in the expression of the period—annihilated space and time They sailed across the breadth of the British Empire, from England in the west to Hong Kong in the east, their ships carrying the tea and cotton and opium and other valuable goods that helped sustain the imperial economy They traveled through a world defined by custom and deformed by class, in every country they visited, and even on the ships... forbidding landscape with few protections and few companions to share the load As late as 1889, the year that Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland set off around the world (by which time enough women had entered the field that The Journalist published a “special women’s issue” celebrating the work of female journalists, Bly and Bisland among them), Flora McDonald could still point out that for “any well-balanced... to the clerk, and if the editor of The World would not see her, then she had no choice but to go to some other paper and give it to them Perhaps Bly added a bit of spurious veracity by mentioning the names of the editors she had recently interviewed; in any event, the threat succeeded, for at last the door was opened and she found herself standing before the desk of The World s editor in chief Nellie. .. and trains they used to get there Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland were not only racing around the world; they were also racing through the very heart of the Victorian age ON THE SURFACE THE TWO WOMEN scheduled to depart at nine-thirty in the morning; shortly before that a long blast from a horn sounded, warning all who were not to sail that it was time to go ashore “Keep up your courage,” one of Nellie. .. scheduled to receive a visitor The clothes had been made by the saner patients among them, who did most of the work of the asylum, which included cleaning the nurses’ bedrooms and tending the beautiful lawns that were the face the asylum presented to the world In the mornings, when the weather was fair, the fifteen hundred women of the asylum were taken on a brief promenade around those lawns, looking... people—about one-fifteenth of the population of the United States as a whole, or one out of every three hundred people then living in the entire world Half of all the commerce that entered the United States came through New York, and three-quarters of the immigrants; the clerks of the city’s post office handled more than a billion letters each year, and another forty thousand tons of newspapers Around Manhattan,... elevator in the presence of a lady), and the city, which from its inception had spread inexorably across the land mass of Manhattan Island, was now extending itself into the as yet unconquered geography of the sky Slender, extravagantly decorated skyscrapers—sky-piercers, as they were sometimes called then—rose in hues of red and brown and white, their shafts clad in sandstone and marble and granite,... shop, and several taverns; the town would not have a bank until 1871 In the winters there was sledding and skating, and when the warmer weather came the children of the town liked to roll barrel hoops down the hill to the canal bridge and to fish the Kiskiminetas River, which had not yet been contaminated by runoff from the coal mines and iron mills being built nearby Elizabeth was born to Michael and. .. behind Nellie Bly , Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, were about as different as could be: one woman a Northerner, the other from the South; one a scrappy, hard-driving crusader, the other priding herself on her gentility; one seeking out the most sensational of news stories, the other preferring novels and poetry and disdaining much newspaper writing as “a wild, crooked, shrieking hodge-podge,” a “caricature . College LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Goodman, Matthew. Eighty days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s history- making race around the world / Matthew Goodman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical. on the ships and trains they used to get there. Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland were not only racing around the world; they were also racing through the very heart of the Victorian age. THE. Randolph Hearst and subsequently assume a very different character), and as the ferry crossed the river he read The World s front-page article revealing Nellie Bly s plan to race around the world.