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Nellie Bly: “I said I could and I would. And I did.
On International Womens Day, investigative journalist Patricia Devlin shares the story of the woman who is her inspiration
08 Mar 2021
I was a teenage journalism student when I first discovered the magnificent Nellie Bly.
It was my first week at university in Northern Ireland and my tutor handed each person in our class a list of suggested books to read for the upcoming term.
When scouring the shelves of the campus library, I stumbled across ‘Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs’, a book which, 15 years later, I still pick up and flick through when I need a dose of inspiration.