Eva The Adventuress, Nellie Bly
Eva The Adventuress, Nellie Bly
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Eva The Adventuress
A Romance of a Blighted Life

Author: Nellie Bly

Narrator: Eryn O'Sullivan

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Sordelet Audio

Published: 04/17/2023


Synopsis

Based On Real Events! Inspired by Nellie Bly's explosive 1889 interview with convicted criminal Eva Hamilton (wife to the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton!), Eva The Adventuress is a blockbuster of the fury of a woman scorned.
Born into poverty, beautiful Eva Scarlett rescues a handsome stranger from a mob, trusting him to marry her. She soon discovers he has tricked her, their marriage is a lie! Alone in New York, a “fallen woman,” Eva sets off down a path of vengeance on all those who have wronged her - until her quest is derailed by the genuine love of a scion of a famous family. Yet the past cannot let her go, and Eva discovers that in the battle between love and revenge, only one can triumph.
Pioneering undercover journalist Nellie Bly is rightly famous for exposing society's ills. From brutal insane asylums to corrupt politicians, she used the pages of the New York World to bring down all manner of frauds, cheats, and charlatans. What no one knows is that Nellie Bly was also a novelist. Because, of the twelve novels Bly wrote between 1889 and 1895, eleven have been lost - until now! These are The Lost Novels of Nellie Bly!

About Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly (1864-1922) was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran, whose best-known works are Ten Days in a Mad-House and Around the World in Seventy-Two Days. A pioneer of investigative journalism, her work often focused on issues of corruption and poverty and gave voice to disenfranchised groups. She first wrote for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, where she became a foreign correspondent in Mexico, and later for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and the New York Evening Journal, covering stories including the Pullman Railroad strike and the 1913 women's suffrage convention and profiling figures including Susan B. Anthony and anarchist Emma Goldman. Bly died of pneumonia in 1922.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Felicia

Eating for the story not.extras This novel was leaps and bounds better than her first. I loved reading about the tragic life of Eva. Again there were quite a few typos that could have been taken care of with a little more editing, (the word was supposed to be had but the word had was printed. Instead......more