Nellie Bly: Journalist (Hardcover)
At 20,Elizabeth Cochrane dreamed of being a writer,but it seemed impossible. Her father had died when she was six,and her stepfather had been an abusive alcoholic. She had dropped out of high school because her family could not afford the tuition. Her mother was running a boarding house when Elizabeth read a column in The Pittsburgh Dispatch that said women should stay home and raise children. Furious,Cochrane wrote back,describing her life and the lives of many women. That letter earned he