When her father died young and his estate was split among his many children and second wife (Bly’s mother), the family fell on hard times.
Nellie Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochran, born May 5, 1864, in Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania. “Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. “I had some faith in my own ability as an actress,” Bly later wrote. As an undercover reporter, she planned to witness the rumored abuses at the asylum firsthand and expose them. Unlike the others interned at the asylum, however, Bly came by choice. After an ambulance ride, Bly and the others found themselves ushered into the stone buildings of the insane asylum. Their stay in the filthy cabin was mercifully short, and soon they crossed the East River and disembarked. In 1887, Nellie Bly boarded the boat with the other patients bound for Blackwell’s Island, now known as Roosevelt Island.
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