Bly." For six months, Nellie knocked on the doors of New York ... She was employed by the "New York Journal" when she died from pneumonia, in 1922, at the age of 57. A brilliant literary critic ...

After her divorce, Nellie Bly's mother Mary Jane took her daughter to Allegheny City, an unincorporated part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where two of her sons were living. By that time the city ...