“I said I could and I would. And I did.”

On November 14, 1889, at 9:40 a.m., she boarded the Hamburg-America Line’s record breaker “Augusta Victoria”, equipped with a plaid coat, 1 (in words: one) dress, a change of underwear, a sponge bag and 200 pounds sterling to Southampton for the first leg of her journey that would take her 25.000 miles around the world….Nellie Bly completed her journey in seventy-two days and six hours.

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