Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. by Bly
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"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.)
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| Author | Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922 |
|---|---|
| Title |
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. |
| Alternate Title | 10 Days in a Mad-House |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_in_a_Mad-House |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | RC: Medicine: Internal medicine |
| Subject | N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum |
| Subject | Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922 |
| Subject | Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century |
| Subject | Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century |
| Subject | Psychiatric hospital care -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century |
| Subject | Women -- Mental health services -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century |
| Subject | Women patients -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 59899 |
| Release Date | Jul 10, 2019 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 893 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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