What are girls good for? Nellie Bly wasn't always Nellie Bly. First she was Elizabeth Cochrane, a shy girl from Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. All her life Elizabeth had been told, "girls can't do this" and "girls can't do that." Even the newspaper the Pittsburgh Dispatch said...
Let's learn about these famous figures from American history. Nellie Ely was known as an investigative reporter, but what about before that? What happened when Bly was younger? What did she do then that led to her becoming famous later on? Book jacket.
Nellie Bly was known as an investigative reporter, but what about before that? Find out what happened when Bly was younger, and what she did that made her famous later on.