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Elizabeth Bisland
Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore (February 11, 1861 – January 6, 1929) was an American journalist and author, perhaps best known for her 1889–1890 race around the world against Nellie Bly, which drew worldwide attention.
==Early career==
Bisland was born on Fairfax Plantation, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, on February 11, 1861. During the Civil War, the family fled the homestead prior to the Battle of Fort Bisland. Life was difficult when they returned, and when she was twelve the family moved to Natchez, Louisiana, site of her father's family home which he had inherited.〔Verdery, Katherine. (Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore ), in ''Library of Southern Literature'', p.5767-72 (1910)〕 She began her writing career as a teenager, sending poetry to the ''New Orleans Times Democrat'' using the pen name B.L.R. Dane.〔〔Bradshaw, Jim. (Acadiana Diary: St. Mary journalist competed with Bly ), ''The Daily Advertiser'', April 2, 2006〕〔Bradshaw, Jim. (Elizabeth Bisland raced Nellie Bly around world ), ''The Daily Advertiser'', August 3, 2008〕 Once her writing activity was revealed to her family and the paper's editor, she was paid for the work, and she soon went to New Orleans to work for the paper.〔 Around 1887, Bisland moved to New York City〔(Bright Women These: Sketches and Portraits of Some Daughters of the South ), ''The Day'', January 2, 1891〕 and got her first work from ''The Sun'' newspaper.〔 By 1889 she was doing work for a number of publications, including the ''New York World''.〔 Among other outlets, she later become an editor at ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine and also contributed to the ''Atlantic Monthly'' and the ''North American Review''.〔
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