A new favorite novel Bly by Melania Soriani

 One of my latest reading "Bly" by Melania Soriani.

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Elisabeth Cochran (aka Nellie Bly) was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania. Her father was a judge and already had ten children from his first marriage when he married Elisabeth's mother, Mary Jane with whom he had other five children.

Unfortunately, the judge died at only 60 years of age and his fortune was divided among the many children, leaving Elisabeth and her family with almost nothing.

After a couple of years they moved to Pittsburgh. In 1885 Elisabeth read an article in a local newspaper, The Pittsburgh Dispatch, which underlined that a woman's place was in the home as a main help to her husband and family. Since she strongly disagreed to this, she sent a letter as a response to the article signed "Lonely Orphan Girl". The editor was impressed by this letter that he published it in his newspaper.

Shortly after she became a journalist for the Dispatch, publishing all her articles under a pseudonym "Nellie Bly". She became an investigative journalist, she reported the poor working conditions and poor wages people, especially women suffered in factories. She also worked as an international corrispondent for the Dispatch during her six months trip to Mexico.

Elisabeth reached her fame when she moved to New York and began working as a journalist for the New York World. In order to investigate the real conditions of women in an insane asylum, she pretended to to be mentally ill and she soon became a patient of that asylum for ten days. For ten days she experienced the physical and mental abuse the patients suffered. She published all her articles in a book titled "10 Days in a Mad House".

In 1889 she decided to beat the record set by Jules Verne in his novel "Around the World in eighty Days". She traveled with only one dress, a cape and a small traveller's bag. She published all her articles in a book titled "Around the World in seventy-two Days".

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Read it if you love strong female characters and non fiction books. I strongly recommend it if you are a student at a low secondary school and you study human rights and women's rights for your final oral exams.

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