A review by illyanadallas222
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly

4.0

Through Bly's journalism during the Gilded age (before women were allowed to vote) was ground breaking. She went places and did things that women had never done before. Her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days with one dress on her person and one luggage was one of her most well known exploits. Her most daring undertaking was purposefully exposing the monstrosities that happen to women in Mental Institutions. Thus she got herself committed to a women's insane asylum for ten days in order to write a startling eposé of the abuses of the system. Bly also risked imprisonment in Mexico for writing critical pieces on the authoritarian government.

What Nelly Bly pioneered, is that facts alone don't change the world through journalism, but rather stories are what moves readers. So make your story as great as possible. Make your facts as enticing as possible. And little by little, you can change perspective's around the world.