Nellie Bly, Robert Kauzlaric, David Blixt

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Little Penny, Child Of The Streets (The Lost Novels Of Nellie Bly, #9) (eBook, ePUB)

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From the bestselling pen of the original undercover reporter, a novel that was lost for 125 years! Pioneering undercover journalist Nellie Bly is rightly famous for exposing society's ills. From brutal insane asylums to corrupt politicians, she exposed all manner of frauds and charlatans. She was also a skilled interviewer and reporter.

What no one has known was that she was also a novelist. This is because, of the twelve novels Bly wrote between 1889 and 1895, eleven have been lost - until now! Discovered by author David Blixt (What Girls Are Good For), Nellie Bly's lost works of fiction are now available for the first time! These are The Lost Novels of Nellie Bly!

The Two Beautiful Outcasts Of New York.

Little Penny Pendleton, a sweet-hearted girl who needs a crutch to walk, is thrown out of her home after the murder conviction of her foster father. Worse, her dog, her only friend in the world, is killed. Friendless, homeless, she wanders into the night. Aline Gwynne is the haughty daughter of a millionaire, enjoying a perfect life-until her father is threatened with ruin. The man who holds her father in his grasp demands Aline's hand in marriage. Rather than submit, Aline runs away from home. By chance, both young women meet Claude Lansdale, a poor doctor struggling to establish his practice. The handsome, noble young physician takes pity on the pair and houses them with his fiancée, Ray Willard, an ambitious woman who secretly dreams of wealth, and is determined to get it by any means. All three are enamored of the doctor, but all fall into the power of Aline's nemesis, the villainous Felix Arrington, who means to marry Aline and keep Ray as his mistress. Yet Felix holds a secret in his heart that will change the life of . . .Little Penny, Child Of The Streets! Extra feature: includes the New York World articles that inspired her stories!

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Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth "Pink" Cochran. Her father, a man of considerable wealth, served for many years as judge of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He lived on a large estate called Cochran's Mills, which took its name from him. Being in reduced circumstances after her father's death, her mother remarried, only to divorce Jack Ford a few years later. The family then moved to Pittsburg, where a twenty-year-old Pink read a column in the Pittsburg Dispatch entitled "What Girls Are Good For." Enraged at the sexist and classist tone, she wrote a furious letter to the editor. Impressed, the editor engaged her to do special work for the newspaper as a reporter, writing under the name "Nellie Bly." Her first series of stories, "Our Workshop Girls," brought life and sympathy to working women in Pittsburgh. A year later she went as a correspondent to Mexico, where she remained six months, sending back weekly articles. After her return, she longed for broader fields, and so moved to New York. The story of her attempt to make a place for herself, or to find an opening, was a long one of disappointment, until at last she gained the attention of the New York World. Her first achievement for them was the exposure of the Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum, in which she spent ten days, and two days in the Bellevue Insane Asylum. The story created a great sensation, making "Nellie Bly" a household name. After three years of doing work as a "stunt girl" at the World, Bly conceived the idea of making a trip around the world in less time than had been done by Phileas Fogg, the fictitious hero of Jules Verne's famous novel. In fact, she made it in 72 days. On her return in January 1890 she was greeted by ovations all the way from San Francisco to New York. She then paused her reporting career to write novels, but returned to the World three years later. In 1895 she married millionaire industrialist Robert Seaman, and a couple years later retired from journalism to take an interest in his factories. She returned to journalism almost twenty years later, reporting on World War I from behind the Austrian lines. Upon returning to New York, she spent the last years of her life doing both reporting and charity work, finding homes for orphans. She died of pneumonia in 1922.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sordelet Ink
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781944540869
• Artikelnr.: 61329373