Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids: Mighty Muckrakers from the Golden Age to Today, with 21 Activities
a series of articles in the New York World Nellie publishes her first book Ten Days in a Mad House 1888 Nellie Bly publishes her second book Six Months in Mexico 1889 1890 Nellie publishes her third book The Mys tery of Central Park which is a novel Nellie sets out to travel around the world in 75 days to beat the record of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg character in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days Now a celebrity Nellie returns from her trip in 72 days Nellie publishes her fourth book Nellie Bly's Book Around the World in Seventy Two Days Jacob Riis publishes his book How the Other Half Lives Studies Among the Tenements of New York 1892 Ida B Wells publishes her pamphlet Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases 1894 Nellie writes about the Pullman strike in Chicago for the New York World 1895 Nellie is offered a job with the Chicago Times Herald but quits within five weeks Nellie marries businessman Robert Liv ingston Seaman
1904 Ida Tarbell publishes her book The History of the Standard Oil Company Robert Seaman dies Nellie becomes owner of Seaman's Iron Clad Manufactur ing Company 1906 Upton Sinclair publishes his novel The Jun gle Teddy Roosevelt first uses the term muck rake in a 1906 dedication speech in Wash ington DC 1913 Nellie reports on the Woman Suffrage Pro cession in Washington DC 1914 Nellie travels to Europe World War I begins Nellie reports on World War I from the trenches as a war correspondent for William Randolph Hearst's newspaper the New York Evening Journal 1918 World War I ends 1919 Nellie returns to the United States and continues to write for the Journal 1922 At 57 years old Nellie Bly dies in New York City on January 27
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