Ebook {Epub PDF} Ten Days in a Mad-House by 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; 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).  · Inside Nellie Bly’s 10 Days in a Madhouse. In , year-old reporter Nellie Bly had herself committed to a New York City asylum to expose the horrific conditions for 19th-century mental Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.

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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. 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. Ten Days in A Mad-House, Was Written By Nellie Bly in , after she lived, undercover, at a women's insane asylum at Blackwell's Island in for ten days. This was an assignment given to her by Joseph Pulitzer. The living conditions and treatment of the Patients were Horrible.