Renegade Female Adventurers: Nelly Bly

March 16th, 2015 • BY Morgan Tilton

What makes an adventuresome lady a renegade? A woman who set the bolts, gallops the stallion, and incessantly stair-steps in crampons—ice axe in hand—like a spring picnic.

We are incredibly inspired by historical female adventurers, who overcame stereotypes and hurdled barriers—they were fueled purely by self motivation and liberated by pants. These ladies, traveled the globe, rallied up mountains and rock, and reached the summit of never-before-conquered crests.

In this new WomensMovement.com series, we celebrate the top historical female adventurers from the past two centuries. Globe-hopping, climbing the world’s highest summits, and scaling its steepest faces, these cream-of-the-crop ladies paved the way for the rest of us.

Female Adventurer: Nellie Bly

Era: 1864-1922

Origin: Born in Pennsylvania, Nellie Bly moved to New York City in 1887 where she became a journalist for the newspaper New York World.

Claim to Fame: To start, Bly paved the way for investigate journalism with an acclaimed expose—printed in New York World in 1887—which exposed the poor conditions during her 10-day committal in the NYC mental institution on Blackwell’s Island (now Roosevelt Island). She posed as a mental patient in order to be entered into the facility and the story’s publishing sparked an investigation of the institution and altered health care legislation.

Two years later, she again pushed boundaries: Bly set off to travel around the world on a mission to break the fabricated global travel record of Phileas Fogg, the fictional character of the 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne. With motley vehicles—a list spanning ship, horse, rickshaw, burro and sampan—Bly finished the global loop in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.

Fun Fact: At 18 years old, Bly submitted a zesty letter to The Pittsburgh Dispatch, regarding a sexist editorial piece that had been published. Her attitude-busting notion landed her a reporting position at the paper.

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