I have to come clean, Nellie Bly did not visit the North West of England. She did, however, circumnavigate the globe in seventy two days, visiting twenty two cities and towns. She travelled by train or on ocean going vessels in various states of sea-worthiness, carrying a single bag - her grip sack - containing essential items including a large glass jar of cold cream but not, as advised, a revolver. This was in 1889 when young women of 25 years of age were not expected to traverse their own neighbourhoods unchaperoned. How did Nellie find herself holed up in Hong Kong awaiting a ship delayed by engine failure or inspecting a mass execution ground in Canton? She was furious at being refused admission to a Hindu temple in Singapore. “Why should my sex exclude me from a temple as in America it confines me to the side entrances of hotels and other strange and incommodious things?” She was born Elizabeth Jane Cochrane to working class parents in Pennsylvania. She moved to New York to pursue.. Read more
Paula Moorhouse for the North-West Labour History Journal no. 49

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