Jan 25, 2021

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Nellie Bly: The Girl Puzzle

Bly’s First Story

The Girl Puzzle

The Pittsburg Dispatch — January 25, 1885

What shall we do with our girls?

Not our Madame Neilsons; nor our Mary Andersons; not our Bessie Brambles nor Maggie Mitchells; not our beauty or our heiress; not any of these, but those without talent, without beauty, without money.

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Nellie Bly: The Girl Puzzle

The Girl Puzzle

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