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What Girls Are Good For
- A Novel of Nellie Bly
- Narrated by: Janice L. Blixt
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
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Summary
From international best-selling author David Blixt: Nellie Bly has the story of a lifetime. But will she survive to tell it?
Enraged by a sexist article in the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Elizabeth Cochrane pens a furious letter to the editor that results in a job offer! Saddled with the name Nellie Bly, she struggles against the male-dominated newspaper industry to report what no one else will—stories of women.
Chased out of Mexico for revealing government corruption, her romantic advances rejected by a married colleague, Bly can break into New York’s Newspaper Row if she can nab a major scoop—life inside a madhouse! Feigning madness, she is committed to the Insane Asylum on Blackwell’s Island, where matters are far worse than she dreamed. Stripped, drugged, beaten, she must endure a week of terror, reliving the darkest days of her childhood. She must escape to tell the world her story. But at the end of a week, no rescue comes, and she fears she may be trapped forever....
Ripped from the true events of Nellie Bly’s life and reporting comes a novel of rage, determination, and triumph, all in the frame of a tiny Pennsylvania spitfire who refused to let the world change her, and changed the world instead.
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"With rich imagination and meticulous research, David Blixt has brought the hectic, exciting world of nineteenth-century journalism vividly to life. His Nellie Bly is determined, independent, crafty, irresistible—a heroine any reader would be delighted to get to know." (Matthew Goodman, Eighty Days)
"David Blixt pens a heroine for the ages in What Girls Are Good For. This real-life Lois Lane had me cheering aloud as I turned the pages—simply a delight!" (Kate Quinn, The Alice Network)
"Dramatic, engrossing, and spirited! A feminist icon whose voice rings loud and true!" (Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night)