Courtney Herber, PhD on Nostr: #OnThisDay in #history - in 1864, Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born. In 1885, the ...

#OnThisDay in #history - in 1864, Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born. In 1885, the Pittsburgh Dispatch paper ran a column opining on 'women's natural place' in the home and raising children. Elizabeth read it and submitted an anonymous response defending jobs and education for women, so they could provide for themselves. From this, she earned a full-time job writing for the paper.
She published under the name Nellie Bly.
She ran factories, published, and invented items.
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