Under the pseudonym ‘Lonely Orphan Girl’, Cochran sent a response that so impressed the editor, George Madden, with its combination of incandescent rage and dignified prose that he published both the letter and an invite for the writer to come in to the office. The writer even expressed supposedly tongue-in-cheek support for the practice of girl-child infanticide. The viciously misogynistic piece, titled ‘What Girls Are Good For’, criticised women for attempting to gain an education, forge a career or stray too far from home. In 1885, Cochran read an article in The Pittsburgh Dispatch that would change her life. In 1880, the family moved to Pittsburgh, where they took in boarders to make ends meet. Cochran had to leave school and abandon her ambitions of being a teacher. Her mother remarried, but the relationship turned abusive and ended in divorce. Known as ‘Pink’ as a youngster, because she was so often dressed in the colour, Cochran would become a trailblazer, carving a career at the cutting edge of journalism under a new name: Nellie Bly.Īfter the death of her father when she was six, the family fell on hard times. She was his 13th child, and her early life experiences ignited a fierce fire in her belly. The producers revealed that the next season will be another adaptation of Jules Verne – this time, The Journey To The Centre Of The Earth.Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in 1864, in a small Pennsylvanian town named after her father, Judge Michael Cochran.
#AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS BOOK SERIES#
While we don’t know what the ending is for the television series, we do know the two production companies behind it – Slim Film + Television and Federation Entertainment – have already given a second series the green light.
This neat, satisfying ending means that Fogg won the wager as well as the princely sum of £20,000. As Passepartout is sent out to find a clergyman to marry them, he discovers that, because they travelled through time zones, they have indeed gone around the world in 80 days. Fogg arrives in Liverpool but is arrested for a crime he hasn’t committed (remember that bank robbery we talked about?) and when he is finally released, he arrives in London five minutes late for his bet.Īt the end of the book, Fogg is betrothed to a young widow whose life they saved while travelling through India. From here, they miss a ship that’s departing for London by just 45 minutes, and to make up time, they hijack a ship bound for France. This unlikely pair travel from London to Europe, through India, to Hong Kong, then to Japan, across to San Francisco, and on to New York. In his adventures with the emotional Passepartout, he moves from extraordinary scenario (think: being framed for a bank robbery) to extraordinary scenario (like using a sail-powered sledge to travel over snow to Nebraska). In the book, Phileas Fogg is an unflappable, solitary English gentleman who lives a very structured life. The plot tracks Phileas Fogg (played by David Tennant) and his newly employed French valet Passepartout (played by Ibrahim Koma) in their globetrotting adventures, as they attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days to win an impossible “gentleman’s wager.” Well, as mentioned, this classic was written by French writer Jules Verne and was first published in French ( Le Tour Du Monde En Quatre-Vingts Jours) in 1872. But one burning question you may have while watching (if you don’t mind spoilers, that is) is what’s the book ending for this famous novel? The series will span eight episodes, leaning on the source material while also taking a few cinematic detours, too.
This New Year, BBC One will be adapting Jules Verne’s 1872 novel Around The World In 80 Days with David Tennant at its helm.
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