Six Months in Mexico

Nellie Bly

Description

From the famous stunt girl reporter who wrote the well-known exposé, Ten Days in a Mad-House, this 1888 travelogue details Nellie Bly’s experience of living in Mexico in the late nineteenth century.

Under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, Six Months in Mexico chronicles her time spent living in Mexico in 1885. The American journalist provides a fascinating window into the country’s culture and the every day lives of those living there. Bly describes wedding ceremonies and the people’s smoking habits, as well as commenting on the horror of life living under a dictator.

This classic travel book includes engaging chapters such as:

- In the Streets of Mexico

- How Sunday is Celebrated

- A Horseback Ride Over Historic Grounds

- A Mexican Bull-Fight

- The Museum and its Curiosities

- Historic Tombs and Lonely Graves

Republished by Read & Co. Travel, this captivating edition of Six Months in Mexico is accompanied by several of Bly’s other journalism articles and is completed by an introductory biography by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. The ideal gift for fans of travel writing and a must read for those who have, or wish to visit Mexico.

Introduction

Elizabeth Cochrane

1. Adieu to the United States

2. El Paso Del Norte

3. Along the Route

4. The City of Mexico

5. In the Streets of Mexico

6. How Sunday is Celebrated

7. A Horseback Ride Over Historic Grounds

8. A Mexican Bull-Fight

9. The Museum and its Curiosities

10. Historic Tombs and Lonely Graves

11. Cupid's Work in Sunnyland

12. Joaquin Miller and Coffin Street

13. In Mexican Theatres

14. The Floating Gardens

15. The Castle of Chapultepec

16. The Feasts of the Gamblers

17. Feast of Flowers and Lenten Celebrations

18. Guadalupe and its Romantic Legend

19. A Day's Trip on a Street Car

20. Where Maximillian's American Colony Lived

21. A Mexican Arcadia

22. The Wonders of Puebla

23. The Pyramid of Cholula

24. A Few Notes About Mexican Presidents

25. Mexican Soldiers and the Rurales

26. The Press of Mexico

27. The Ghastly Tale of Dunjuan Manuel

28. A Mexican Parlor

29. Love and Courtship in Mexico

30. Scenes within Mexican Homes

31. The Romance of the Mexican Pulque

32. Mexican Manners

33. Noche Triste Tree

34. Little Notes of Interest

35. A Few Recipes for Mexican Dishes

36. Some Mexican Legends

37. Princess Josefa de Yturbide

Miscellaneous Articles

Sujets

• Special Interest
• Travel
• Adventure

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 06 mai 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528792530
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO
AND OTHER INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM ARTICLES
By
NELLIE BLY
WITH A BIOGRAPHY BY FRANCES E. WILLARD AND MARY A. LIVERMORE

First published in 1888



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To George A. Madden, Managing Editor of The Pittsburg Dispatch
In Remembrance of His Never-Failing Kindness


Contents
ELIZAB ETH COCHRANE
By Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore
SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO
CHAPTER I
ADIEU TO THE U NITED STATES
CHAPTER II
EL PA SO DEL NORTE
CHAPTER III
ALO NG THE ROUTE
CHAPTER IV
THE CI TY OF MEXICO
CHAPTER V
IN THE STREE TS OF MEXICO
CHAPTER VI
HOW SUNDAY I S CELEBRATED
CHAPTER VII
A HORSEBACK RIDE OVER HIST ORIC GROUNDS
CHAPTER VIII
A MEXICA N BULL-FIGHT
CHAPTER IX
THE MUSEUM AND ITS CURIOSITIES
CHAPTER X
HISTORIC TOMBS AND L ONELY GRAVES
CHAPTER XI
CUPID'S WORK IN SUNNYLAND
CHAPTER XII
JOAQUIN MILLER AND C OFFIN STREET
CHAPTER XIII
IN MEXI CAN THEATERS
CHAPTER XIV
THE FLOA TING GARDENS
CHAPTER XV
THE CASTLE OF CHAPULTEPEC
CHAPTER XVI
THE FEASTS OF THE GAMBLERS
CHAPTER XVII
FEAST OF FLOWERS AND LENTEN CELEBRATIONS
C HAPTER XVIII
GUADALUPE AND ITS ROM ANTIC LEGEND
CHAPTER XIX
A DAY'S TRIP ON A STREET CAR
CHAPTER XX
WHERE MAXIMILIAN'S AMERICAN COLONY LIVED
CHAPTER XXI
A MEX ICAN ARCADIA
CHAPTER XXII
THE WONDE RS OF PUEBLA
C HAPTER XXIII
THE PYRAMI D OF CHOLULA
CHAPTER XXIV
A FEW NOTES ABOUT MEXICA N PRESIDENTS
CHAPTER XXV
MEXICAN SOLDIERS AND THE RURALES
CHAPTER XXVI
THE PRE SS OF MEXICO
C HAPTER XXVII
THE GHASTLY TALE OF DON JUAN MANUEL
CH APTER XXVIII
A ME XICAN PARLOR
CHAPTER XXIX
LOVE AND COURTSH IP IN MEXICO
CHAPTER XXX
SCENES WITHIN M EXICAN HOMES
CHAPTER XXXI
THE ROMANCE OF THE ME XICAN PULQUE
C HAPTER XXXII
MEX ICAN MANNERS
CH APTER XXXIII
NOCHE TRISTE TREE
C HAPTER XXXIV
LITTLE NOTES OF INTEREST
CHAPTER XXXV
A FEW RECIPES FOR ME XICAN DISHES
C HAPTER XXXVI
SOME MEX ICAN LEGENDS
CH APTER XXXVII
PRINCESS JOSEFA DE YTURBIDE
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
TRYING TO BE A SERVANT
NELLIE BLY AS A WHITE SLAVE





ELIZABETH COCHRANE
By Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore
Author, journalist and traveller. Known the world over by her pen-name, "Nellie Bly." Born in Cochrane Mills. Pa., 5th May, 1867. a place named after her father, who was a lawyer and for several terms filled the office of associate judge of Armstrong county, Pa. She is a descendant on her father's side of Lord Cochrane, the famous English admiral, who was noted for his deeds of daring, and who was never happy unless engaged in some exciting affair. Miss Cochrane's great-grandfather Cochrane was one of a number of men who wrote a declaration of independence in Maryland near the South Mountains a long time before the historic Declaration of Independence was delivered to the world. Her great-grandfather, on her mother's side, was a man of wealth, owning at one time almost all of Somerset county, Pa. His name was Kennedy, and his wife was a nobleman's daughter. They eloped and fled to America. He was an officer, as were his two sons, in the Revolutionary War. Afterward he was sheriff of Somerset county repeatedly until old age compelled him to decline the office. One of his sons. Thomas Kennedy, Miss Cochrane's grand-uncle, made a flying trip around the word, starting from and returning to New York City, where his wife awaited his arrival. It took him three years to make the trip, and he returned in shattered health. He at once set about to write the history of his trip, but his health became so bad that he had to give up his task. Her father died while Elizabeth was yet a child.
She was educated at home until 1880, when she was sent to Indiana, Pa., where she remained in a boarding-school until 1881. Impaired health forced her to leave school, and she returned home. The family moved to Pittsburgh, and there she began her literary career. She saw an article in the Pittsburgh "Dispatch" entitled "What Girls are Good For." She wrote a reply to the article, and though the reply was not published, a paragraph appeared in the "Dispatch" the day after she sent the communication, asking for the writer's name. Miss Cochrane sent her name and received a letter from the editor, requesting her to write an article on the subject of girls and their spheres in life for the "Sunday Dispatch." This she did. The article was printed, and the same week she received a check for it and a request for something else. Her next subject was "Divorce," and at the end of the article appeared the now famous signature, "Nellie Bly." Miss Cochrane assumed it on the suggestion of George A. Madden, managing editor of the "Dispatch." who got it from Stephen Foster's popular song. The divorce article attracted attention. She was invited to the office and made arrangements to accent a salary and devote her time to the "Dispatch."
Taking an artist with her, she went through the factories and workshop of Pittsburgh, and described and pictured the condition of the working girls. The articles made a hit. Miss Cochrane became society editor of the "Dispatch" and also looked after the dramatic and art department, all for a salary of ten dolla rs per week.
She decided to go to Mexico to write about its people. At that time she was receiving fifteen dollars per week. She went, and her letters printed in the " Dispatch " were full of interest and were widely copied. She had never been out of her State before, but she travelled everywhere in Mexico that a railroad could take her. Her mother was her companion o n that trip.
Returning to Pittsburgh, she became dissatisfied with that held, quit the " Dispatch," and went to New York City. She did syndicate work for a while.
One day she lost her pocketbook and all the money she possessed. She was too proud to let her friends know, and she sat down and thought. Before that she had written to the "World," asking the privilege of going in the balloon the " World " was about sending up at St. Louis, but, as final arrangements had been completed, her suggestion was not favourably received, low and finding herself penniless, she made a list of a half-dozen original ideas and went to the "World" office, determined to see Mr. Pulitzer and offer them to him. Having no letter of introduction and being unknown, she found it almost an impossibility to gain an audience. For three hours she talked and expostulated with different employees, before she finally exhausted their denials and was ushered into the unwilling presence of Mr. Pulitzer and his editor, John A. Cockerill. Once there, they listened to her ideas and immediately offered her twenty-five dollars to give them three days in which to consider her suggestions. At the end of that time she was told that her idea to feign insanity and, as a patient, investigate the treatment of the insane in the Blackwell Island Asylum was accepted. Miss Bly did that with such marked success and originality of treatment, and attracted so much attention, that she secured a permanent place on the "World" staff. She originated a new field in journalism, which has since been copied all over the world by her many imitators. Her achievements since her asylum expose have been many and brilliant. Scarcely a week passed that she had not some novel feature in the "World." Her fame grew and her tasks enlarged, until they culminated in the wonderful tour of the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds. That idea she proposed to Mr. Pulitzer one year before he approved and accepted it. Owing to delayed steamers. Miss Bly lost fifteen days on land, but she was the first to conceive and establish a record for a fast trip around the world. Since Miss Cochrane "girdled the globe." others have repeated the feat i n less time.
Her newspaper work resulted in many reforms. Her expose of asylum abuses procured an appropriation of $3,000,000 for the benefit of the poor insane, in addition to beneficial changes in care and management. Her expose of the " King of the Lobby" rid Albany of its greatest disgrace; her station-house expose procured matrons for New York police-stations; her expose of a noted "electric" doctor's secret rid Brooklyn of a notorious swindler. Miss Cochrane left journalism to do literary work for a weekly publication.
A C hapter from A Woman of the C entury, 1893





SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO
CHAPTER I
ADIEU TO THE UNITED STATES
One wintry night I bade my few journalistic friends adieu, and, accompanied by my mother, started on my way to Mexico. Only a few months previous I had become a newspaper