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ONE wintry night I bade my few journalistic friends adieu, and, accompanied by my mother, started on my way to Mexico. Only a few months previous I had become a newspaper woman. I was too impatient to work along at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers, so I conceived... Read Full Overview

From the famous stunt girl reporter who wrote the well-known expos?, Ten Days in a Mad-House, this 1888 travelogue details Nellie Bly's experience of living in Mexico in the late nineteenth century.

Under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, Six Months in Mexico... Read Full Overview

In 1887, Nellie Bly stormed into the office of the New York World, one of the leading newspapers in the country. She expressed interest in writing a story on the immigrant experience in the United States. Although, the editor declined her story he challenged Bly to investigate... Read Full Overview

Six Months in Mexico is an 1888 book by Nellie Bly that she wrote after her travels through Mexico in about 1885. She took the initiative to work as a foreign correspondent at the age of 21. At that point she had been writing for the newspaper The Dispatch, but had become dissatisfied... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly

Reproduction of the original: Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 - January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character... Read Full Overview

"Six Months in Mexico" from Nellie Bly. Was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman.She was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days (1864-1922).

Six Months in MexicoBy Nellie Bly

In 1887, Nellie Bly stormed into the office of the New York World, one of the leading newspapers in the country. She expressed interest in writing a story on the immigrant experience in the United States. Although, the editor declined her story he challenged Bly to investigate... Read Full Overview