Ten Days in a Mad-House (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from BellaFoxx

This book was very easy to read. Nellie Bly has a very conversational way of writing, she also does not get bogged down in needless detail. In this book she tells how she got the assignment and how she prepared for it. After she is committed, which was a rather quick and easy process, she details...

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Nellie Bly is a reporter and has been asked to do a story on the women's Insane Asylum on Bellevue Island in New York. She prepares herself to appear and seem crazy. When she enters the institution, it is dirty and the food is really bad, the treatment of patients is bad. She is released after a ...

from JReynolds1959

Nellie Bly is a reporter and has been asked to do a story on the women's Insane Asylum on Bellevue Island in New York. She prepares herself to appear and seem crazy. When she enters the institution, it is dirty and the food is really bad, the treatment of patients is bad. She is released after a ...

from flippinpages

Interesting read. I found the writing somewhat immature for a lady so well accomplished and respected. Would have liked more information at times, other than the doctor(s) asked me more questions and pronounced me insane. I felt the doctor's questions critical to the story. Easy read. Glad I read...

from wealhtheowwylfing

Nellie Bly was a reporter in New York who convinced the courts that she was insane and got herself locked away at Blackwell's Island. Her expose of the conditions there led to increased care and resources given to the patients. What really shocked me about this piece was not the terrible treatmen...