00:00 - So i heard you want to know the tea about Nellie bly.

00:03 - Well lucky for you i'm here at her memorial in Cochran's mills Pennsylvania

00:07 - where she was born Elizabeth Cochrane in a

00:09 - town named after her father who was a judge

00:12 - i can also tell you that she was relocated to Pittsburgh

00:14 - with her mother and siblings and at age fifteen

00:17 - she enrolled in the state normal school in Indiana

00:20 - Pennsylvania with the intent of becoming a teacher

00:23 - but then she ran out of money and had to drop out

00:26 - now here's the real tea

00:27 - In 1885 the artist formerly known as Elizabeth Cochrane read an

00:31 - article in the Pittsburgh dispatch titled

00:33 - what girls are good for

00:35 - according to an article from the royal museums in greenwich england our girl

00:38 - Elizabeth was outraged by this letter

00:40 - so she wrote a responding letter to the paper

00:43 - calling from more opportunities for women in the workforce

00:45 - and signed the letter simply as the lonely orphan girl

00:49 - in a twist the editor thought the letter was so well written he posted in the

00:52 - newspaper asking for the writer of the letter to reveal themselves

00:55 - when Elizabeth came forward she was hired to work for the paper and created a

00:59 - pseudonym after a popular song at the time

01:01 - thus creating who we know as Nellie Bly

01:04 - Nellie's beat was investigative reporting

01:06 - in one of her first stories she went undercover at a

01:08 - Pittsburgh factory to expose the unsafe working conditions

01:12 - and low wages of the employees there

01:14 - the article got published and was met with anger from factory workers in Pittsburgh

01:18 - so Nellie was confined to reporting on women's issues such as gardening. when she

01:22 - turned the article in she made sure to incur

01:24 - her resignation letter as well

01:26 - it was hard for Nellie to find a new job in journalism since she was a woman but

01:29 - eventually after moving to new York city

01:32 - was hired at the new York world where she was finally doing investigative journalism

01:36 - Nellie's first and most well-known project at the New York World involved her going

01:39 - undercover and getting admitted to

01:41 - Blackwell's island

01:43 - New York City's asylum for poor people. there she

01:46 - experienced the abuse faced by the patients there

01:48 - Nellie published her work in the World as well as in her book Ten Days in a Madhouse

01:53 - with these publications New York gave more funding

01:55 - to the treatment facilities of mentally ill people

01:58 - Nellie published another book about one of her experiences titled Around the World

02:02 - in 72 Days in which she broke the record of the character in Jules

02:05 - Verne's Around the World in 80 Days

02:07 - while proving that women are capable of and

02:10 - maybe even better at traveling just like men

02:12 - that is not where Nellie's story stops, in 1895

02:15 - she married millionaire Robert Livingston Seaman

02:18 - retired from writing and then when he died took over his iron clad manufacturing

02:22 - company Nellie returned to journalism sixteen years

02:25 - later to fight for women's suffrage and women's rights

02:28 - she died of pneumonia in 1922

02:31 -