Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story had an alternate ending. Pic credit: Lifetime On Saturday, Lifetime aired Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly story. Christina Ricci played the 19th ...

She was a pioneer of women's rights, champion of the working class, a voice for the institutionalized and a record-setting world traveler. On of the state's most pioneering investigative journalists ...

The Jan. 25, 1890, edition of the Lancaster Daily New Era proclaimed in a front page story that thousands of onlookers gathered to the train station to greet and cheer for a journalist. Reporter ...

Lifetime's deliciously silly gothic horror movie 'Escaping the Mad House: The Nellie Bly Story' explores the real-life tale of a 19th century journalist who commits herself to a mental asylum to ...

Though dead for nearly a century, Nellie Bly still rates a birthday cake every May 5. The Apollo Area Historical Society, which devotes a small display at its North Second Street location to the ...

Nellie Bly posing for a publicity shot for The World, wearing her traveling gown and holding her handbag, Feb. 21, 1890. The life of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly will be celebrated during a ...

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, the ...

Lifetime has given the green light to Nellie Bly (working title), a psychological thriller inspired by the groundbreaking 19th century journalist, with Christina Ricci (Monster), Judith Light ...

On Nov. 14, 1889 — 135 years ago today — the world’s most famous female journalist – Nellie Bly of the New York World – set out to see if she could beat a fictional around-the-world record journey of ...