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Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly. It was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by Norman L. Munro, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C. NEW YORK:NORMAN L. MUNRO, PUBLISHER,24 AND 26 VANDEWATER STREET. WHY ARE THE MADAME MORA'S CORSETS A MARVEL OF COMFORT AND ELEGANCE! Try them and you will Find.
In 1887, 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly had herself committed to a New York City asylum to expose the horrific conditions for 19th-century mental patients.
10 Days in a Madhouse is a 2015 American biographical film about undercover journalist Nellie Bly, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World who had herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island to write an exposé on abuses in the institution.
Ten Days in a Mad-House compiles Nellie Bly's reporting from her first undercover assignment for the New York World in 1887. She disguised herself as "a crazy person" in order to get herself admitted to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt's Island).
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"Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island" by Nellie Bly is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The narrative chronicles Bly's daring undercover investigation as she feigns insanity in order to enter the notorious Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum and expose the horrific treatment of patients.