The Girl Puzzle Monument honouring Nellie Bly in NYC
Guest post from author Rosemary J Brown.
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Although I most admire Bly for her investigative journalism, she is best known for her race around the world in 72 days in 1889-90 – alone with just a Gladstone bag – to beat Phileas Fogg’s fictional 80-day record. To pay tribute to her, I followed in Nellie Bly’s global footsteps 125 years later. My aim was to get her ‘back on the map. ‘Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World captures both of our journeys. The Girl Puzzle monument represents the culmination of my goal. Nellie’s role has at last been acknowledged in a remarkable memorial celebrating her journalism and the humanitarian values she embraced. Ground-breaking in many ways, the Girl Puzzle also helps to address a shocking imbalance — less than 8 percent of statues in America commemorate women.
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Following Nellie Bly is available to order here.