.jpg "A woodcut image of Nellie Bly's homecoming reception in Jersey City printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated News on February 8, 1890")
A questo proposito va notato che così come Bly non fu la prima donna americana a diventare reporter, ella non fu neanche la prima donna a fare il giro del mondo da sola; ma in entrambi i casi introdusse in tali ambiti delle novità che ne trasformarono le precedenti modalità e resero unica la sua esperienza. Nel caso del viaggio intorno al mondo, Bly fu la prima donna a fare una corsa contro il tempo che, combinando il tema della velocità - legato al progresso tecnico - con quello della trasgressione, risultò particolarmente attraente agli occhi del pubblico americano; inoltre la grande pubblicità data all'evento dal quotidiano che lo sponsorizzava contribuì al successo strepitoso dell'impresa. (Scatamacchia, 2002)
The Evening World has received kind words and words of praise for the fair traveller from many cities.
At the Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, the students are studying maps, charts, time tables and routes, and a member of the Maryland Historical Society prophesies that Miss Bly will be able to reach New York two days at least ahead of her scheduled time.
The enterprise of The World is being commented upon everwhere, and it has become characteristic for people to believe that The World will accomplish what it sets ont to do.
A writer has sagely remarked that the alphabet and the printer's art alone of human inventions can compare with the inventions which shorten distance as civilizers of the world. Nellie Bly will demostrate how much we have advanced in this regard since the three-year cruises of Magellan, Drake and Cook.
(Evening World, 15 november 1889)
Bly, Nellie. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days. New York: The Pictorial Weeklies Company, 1890.
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the world, which was inspired by the book, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. She carried out the journey for Joseph Pulitzer's tabloid newspaper, the New York World.
