Google celebrates the birthday of Nellie Bly by creating a google doodle and a song. The Google Doodle team went all out, honouring the late nineteenth-century journalist, feminist and world traveller, with an animated video and song written just for Nellie by Yeah Yeah Yeah singer Karen O. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on this date in 1864, Nellie Bly took her pen name from a Stephen Foster song. Her writing career began in 1880 when she sent a rebuttal in response to a column dismissing women titled What Girls Are Good For in the Pittsburgh Dispatch, arguing the need for women to be independent. she also wrote a popular novel around the world in 80 days. Today's Google doodle celebrates not only the fascinating and ground-breaking triumphs of a woman who broke all the rules, but it offers a delightful song to remind us, and our daughters, what women are good for.
