英语词汇nelly bly的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Nelly Bly. American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1867–1922) adopted the pen name Nelly Bly from a song by Stephen Foster. She is said to have taken it when an editor in- sisted that she use a pseudonym and an office boy happened to walk by whistling the tune. One of the first female reporters, Nelly Bly began her career when only 18. Her forte became ex- posés, such as her account in Ten Days in a Madhouse (1887) of the horrible conditions on New York’s Blackwell’s Island, where she was an inmate for 10 days after feigning insanity. In 1889 the New York World sponsored her famous trip around the globe, which she completed in the record time of 72 days, six hours, and 11 minutes and which brought her international fame far exceeding that of any woman of her day. Flowers, trains, and racehorses were named for Nelly Bly and songs were written in her honor.

词汇	nelly bly
词源	Nelly Bly. American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1867–1922) adopted the pen name Nelly Bly from a song by Stephen Foster. She is said to have taken it when an editor in- sisted that she use a pseudonym and an office boy happened to walk by whistling the tune. One of the first female reporters, Nelly Bly began her career when only 18. Her forte became ex- posés, such as her account in Ten Days in a Madhouse (1887) of the horrible conditions on New York’s Blackwell’s Island, where she was an inmate for 10 days after feigning insanity. In 1889 the New York World sponsored her famous trip around the globe, which she completed in the record time of 72 days, six hours, and 11 minutes and which brought her international fame far exceeding that of any woman of her day. Flowers, trains, and racehorses were named for Nelly Bly and songs were written in her honor.
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