Phileas Fogg, Eat My Dust!

Female journalists were a novelty in the late 1800s. The noisy, smoky newsroom was hardly the place for a gentle sex whose “sphere” was the home and who had decades to go before getting the right to vote. Then came Nellie Bly and boy, did things change! The name rings a bell with many but only in a vague way. Nellie made her name as an undercover reporter—“stunt reporting,” they called it. Her most famous moment came in 1889-90, when the 25 year old traveled around the world in 72 d