【美国人物志】娜丽·布莱 (4/9)

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作家朱理斯．佛恩 (Jules Verne) 所写的「环游世界80天」中的的英雄菲利斯．福格 (Phileas T. Fogg) 以80天整的时间确实环绕世界一周。布莱的本名叫做伊利莎白．寇克蓝 (Elizabeth Cochrane) ，她说她能用更短的时间完成环游世界的壮举。布莱搭乘船只、火车、人力车、舢舨、骑马，以及驴子的方式完成了这项壮举。
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Nellie Bly
the Civil War
western Pennsylvania
Pink
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Erasmus Wilson

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The child who would grow up to become Nellie Bly was born during the Civil War, in 1864, in western Pennsylvania. Her family called her Pink. Her father was a judge. He died when she was six years old. Her mother married again. But her new husband drank too much alcohol and beat her. She got a divorce in 1879, when Pink was 15 years old. Pink decided to learn to support herself so she would never need a man. Pink, her mother, brothers and sisters moved to a town near the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pink worked at different jobs but could not find a good one. One day, she read something in the Pittsburgh Dispatch newspaper. The editor of the paper, Erasmus Wilson, wrote that it was wrong for women to get jobs. He said men should have them. Pink wrote the newspaper to disagree. She said she had been looking for a good job for about four years, as she had no father or husband to support her. She signed it "Orphan Girl".