Cochran’s Mills (USA), 1864 - New York (USA), 1922

Lizabeth Jane Cochran, better known by her pseudonym Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who became famous for her record-breaking trip around the world in seventy-two days when trying to emulate Phileas Fogg, the fictional character of Jules Verne and for a report. in which he worked undercover to report the situation of the patients of a madhouse from within. She pioneered her field and created a new type of investigative journalism. When, in the first newspaper she worked in, she was assigned "women's pages" to cover fashion, society, and gardening, she was dissatisfied, so she traveled to Mexico to work as a correspondent abroad. At just twenty-one years old, he spent almost six months reporting on the life and customs of Mexicans, which would later lead to six months in Mexico. Nellie also covered the events of the 1913 convention in favor of women's suffrage and traveled to Europe during World War I to serve as a reporter from the Eastern Front, making her one of the first female war correspondents. Nellie Bly is, therefore, a prominent figure in different fields: pioneer of investigative journalism, a magnificent writer, adventurer and a feminist leader who managed to live from her passion and freely carry it out in an era when the role of women it was often limited to that of wife and mother.