Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World
By Maria Popova from brainpickings.org: Two Victorian women race against each other around the world, countering the cultural inertia of their era. “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real,” science fiction godfather Jules Verne famously proclaimed. He was right about the general sentiment but oh how very wrong about its gendered language: […]