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Ten Days in a Mad-House: or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent.
by Bly, Nellie
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Creators: Nellie Bly (1864-1922) "Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island." by Bly is an investigative journalism book published in 1887. Journalist Nellie Bly feigns insanity to get committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. Once inside, she documents the brutal conditions: abusive nurses, spoiled food, freezing baths in filthy water, and patients tied with ropes. Her undercover exposé sparked public outrage and led to a grand jury investigation that transformed asylum oversight and funding. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 80.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 1585
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BiographiesHistory - AmericanJournalism/Media/WritingPsychiatry/PsychologyWomen in Science, Technology, Engineering, and MathematicsBly, Nellie, 1864-1922Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th centuryN.Y. City Lunatic AsylumPsychiatric hospital care -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th centuryPsychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century