Ebook {Epub PDF} Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

 · Ten Days in a Mad-House; by Nellie Bly Download Read more. Readers reviews. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Average from 6 Reviews. Write Review. Please login or sign up below in order to leave a review. Login Sign up. ThomasMutate. 5. Awesome, she was the bravest heroine ever. Upvote (1) Downvote (0) 07/26//5(6).  · In , at age 23, reporter Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, feigns mental illness to go undercover in notorious Blackwell's Island a woman's insane asylum to expose corruption, abuse and murder. Getting in was easy. Getting out was impossible.7/10(K). The list of atrocious behaviour by those in a position of care is endless. It was also shocking to read how quickly sane women were deemed insane for quite different illnesses. Taking a look inside an asylum in is eye opening. Nellie was incredibly brave to put herself through that ordeal for ten days/5(K).

The Complete Works of Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Mad-House, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and More. Nellie Bly. out of 5 stars. Kindle Edition. 1 offer from $ The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly. Kate Braithwaite. Her resulting exposé, titled Ten Days in a Mad-House and originally published as a series of articles in New York World, is now included in the altogether fantastic collection Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings (public library). The story not only established Bly, a twenty-something woman amidst a male-dominated Victorian. Ten Days in a Mad-House: Illustrated and Annotated: A First-Hand Account of Life at Bellevue Hospital on Blackwell's Island in (Paperback) Published October 8th by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Nellie Bly.

Nellie Bly, ‘Ten Days in a Mad House’ (). In an ‘anxious father’ of 5 unmarried daughters wrote a letter to the Pittsburgh Dispatch, desperate for advice – and worried how his girls would cope out in the big, bad world without men to look after them. Ten Days in a Mad-House is Bly's expose of the asylum. Written for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, Bly's account chronicles her 10 days at Blackwell's Island and, upon its publicat In , Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients. Ten Days in a Mad-House (), a collection of articles originally published in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, helped to change official mental health policies and pioneered a new form of investigative journalism. Bly also wrote a book about her record-breaking seventy-two-day journey around the world.