A review by ehmannky
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days And Other Writings by Nellie Bly, Maureen Corrigan, Jean Marie Lutes

adventurous informative medium-paced

3.0

Nellie Bly was certainly a charming and entertaining writer, I'll give her that. However, major mark downs for Bly's spectacular racism she exhibited on her trip around the world, specifically her Sinophobia I honestly felt it was so paradoxical that she was so bigoted towards so many people in China (and Asia more generally, but it most clearly comes out in the parts where she travels to China and Hong Kong) when she generally held relatively progressive views towards other ethnic and racial minorities she encountered. Most of her attitudes towards the mentally ill, women, the working class, etc. were so progressive that it was so jarring to hear her parrot attitudes so strongly echoed by conservatives. The only reason I wouldn't rate this lower is because this edition specifically has editor's notes that highlights her racist behavior, and the endnotes take care to point out where she was wrong or just flat out lied for a more exciting story.