【美国人物志】娜丽·布莱 (3/9)

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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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Elizabeth Cochrane
New York World
Nellie Brown
Nellie Bly

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Five days later, the story of Elizabeth Cochrane's experience in the hospital appeared in the New York World newspaper. Readers were shocked. They wrote to officials of the city and the hospital protesting the conditions and patient treatment. An investigation led to changes at the hospital. Elizabeth Cochrane had made a difference in the lives of the people there. She made a difference in her own life too. She got her job at the New York World. And she wrote a book about her experience at the hospital. She did not write it as Nellie Brown, however, or as Elizabeth Cochrane. She wrote it under the name that always appeared on her newspaper stories: Nellie Bly.