Annie as depicted in an illustration that accompanied her first-person account of her trip published in the New York World on October 20, 1895. The article appeared under the byline “Nellie Bly, Jr.” The original Nellie Bly was the most famous woman journalist of her day. In late 1889, as a publicity stunt for the World, she set off on a ‘round the world trip to try and break the fictional “record” of Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. Traveling by steamship, train and carriage, Bly made the trip in under 73 days.