Lit Hub Daily: November 14, 2017

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TODAY: In 1889, Newspaper reporter Nellie Bly sets out from New York to beat the record of Jules Verne’s imaginary hero Phileas Fogg, who traveled around the world in 80 days. Bly (pen name for Elizabeth Cochrane) returned 72 days later to a tumultuous welcome in New York. 

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