10 Women Who Would Have Ruled the Blogosphere - Nellie Bly is number 5!

Found this piece about women who have made a difference on the Ms. Magazine website - 10 Women Who Would Have Ruled the Blogosphere

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2011/11/08/10-women-who-would-have-ruled-the-blogosphere/

5. Nellie Bly (1864-1922) An outraged letter in response to a sexist newspaper column launched the journalism career of Elizabeth Jane Cochran. Under the pen name Nellie Bly, she became famous for her undercover exposé of the broken mental-health-care system, for which she feigned madness and was committed to an asylum. Her report on her time there–“What,” she asked, “excepting torture, would produce insanity quicker than this treatment?”–prompted a grand jury investigation and a dramatic increase in state mental-health-care funding. She later earned further renown for a then-record-breaking 72 day trip around the world.

Pretty cool!