Who was Nellie Bly? by Anna

Woman who didn't take no for an answer

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"'I want to go around the world!'" (p.2)

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confident and determined

a feminist icon

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a hardworking woman

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"i had been doing newspaper work for almost three years, during which time i had not enjoyed one day's vacation." (p.4)

„Start the man, and I’ll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him.“

2024-06-05 08:40:04 UTC

-> didn’t let anyone discourage her

-> confidence in herself as a woman

Ambitious

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P. 2: "even less than eighty days", "I can start this minute"

P. 3: "if we want good work..."

P. 4: "I had not enjoyed one day's vacation

judgy

2024-06-05 08:41:38 UTC

"they were the most untidy looking lot of sailors i ever saw. [...] climbing about over the ship like a pack of monkeys." (p. 16)

"I want to go in eighty days or less. I think I can beat Phileas Fogg's record...."

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She is determined to stand up against a male participant and wants to encourage societies view on changing their opinion on women as the weaker sex

Knows about her status as a woman and the stereotypes (in need of help)

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-she refuses to bring a revolver

"I knew if my conduct was proper I shouild always find me ready to protect me, let them be Americans, English, French, German or anything else." (p. 4)

She puts her ambition over the expected role of her

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Declining a dinner because she didn't have an evening dress

-> she couldn't fit in another dress in her travel case or she wouldn't have stood a chance in beating the record of 80 days

"[...]but I had such a strong belief in the world's greeting me as I greeted it, that I refused to arm myself." (4)

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Fearless; very determined to see the "good" in people

2024-06-05 08:44:24 UTC

"Start the man, and Ill start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him." >> confident, bold

"I can start this minute" >> not intimidated by lack of time for preparation, sure of herself, ambitious

"If you want to do it, you can. The question is do you want to do it" >> directness, almost bluntness in interaction

"I have never met the man or woman yet who was not aroused by that answer into doing their very best. " (p.3)

emma_kullmn — 2024-06-05 09:20:54 UTC

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"It will be seen that if one is traveling simply for the sake of traveling and not for the purpose of impressing one's fellow passengers, the problem of baggage becomes a very simple one." (p.5)

"Packing that bag was the most difficult undertaking of my life; there was so much to go into such little space." (p.4)

emma_kullmn — 2024-06-05 09:22:27 UTC

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"I noticed that he dressed very exquisitely and changed his apparel at least three times a day, so my curiosity made me bold enough to ask how many trunks he carried with him. ´Nineteen,` was the amazing reply. I no longer wondered at his fears of getting a wife who could not travel without trunks." (p.16-17)

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"Those who think that night is the best part of the day and that morning was made for sleep,
know how uncomfortable they feel when for some reason they have to get up with–well, with
the milkman.
I turned over several times before I decided to quit my bed. I wondered sleepily why a bed
feels so much more luxurious, and a stolen nap that threatens the loss of a train is so much
more sweet, than those hours of sleep that are free from duty's call. I half promised myself
that on my return I would pretend sometime that it was urgent that I should get up so I could
taste the pleasure of a stolen nap without actually losing anything by it. I dozed off very
sweetly over these thoughts to wake with a start, wondering anxiously if there was still time to
catch the ship.
Of course I wanted to go, but I thought lazily that if some of these good people who spend so
much time in trying to invent flying machines would only devote a little of the same energy
towards promoting a system by which boats and trains would always make their start at noon
or afterwards, they would be of greater assistance to suffering humanity." (6)

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"´Well, by all that is wonderful, where am I? Am I in school again that a woman dare assume such a tone to me?` I kept my thoughts to myself, and said stiffly: ´I generally get up when I feel so inclined.`" (p.12)

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"I went away with a warm feeling in my heart for that kindly man who would have sacrificed his own comfort to insure the safety of an unprotected girl." (p.12)

"Six hours is ample time for them to perform their labors and when they make a promise to have work done in a certain time, they areprompt to the minute. Probably it is because they have no use for clothes themselves, butappreciate at its full value the money they are to receive for their labor. Their charges,compared with laundry prices in New York, are wonderfully low. " (p.5)

emma_kullmn — 2024-06-05 09:26:02 UTC

levannasilver — 2024-06-05 09:31:31 UTC

"This one in turn became less interesting when I found that one of the women, who had been a great sufferer from sea-sickness, had not undressed since she left her home in New York.

"I am sure we are all going down," she said one day in a burst of confidence, "and I am determined to go down dressed!"
I was not surprised after this that she was so dreadfully sea-sick." (p. 9-10)

levannasilver — 2024-06-05 09:35:36 UTC

"We had not been long in sight of land until the decks began to fill with dazed-looking, wanfaced people. It was just as if we had taken on new passengers. We could not realize that they were from New York and had been enjoying (?) a season of seclusion since leaving that port." (p. 11)

"Occasionally we would have a dance on deck to the worst music it has ever been my misfortune to hear. The members of the band also washed the dishes, and though I could not blame the passengers who always disappeared at the appearance of the musicians (?)" (p.16)