

Ten Days in a Mad-House
Author: Nellie Bly
Narrator: Rebecca Gibel
Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 01/17/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychopathology
Author: Nellie Bly
Narrator: Rebecca Gibel
Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 01/17/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychopathology
Nellie Bly (1864-1922) was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran, whose best-known works are Ten Days in a Mad-House and Around the World in Seventy-Two Days. A pioneer of investigative journalism, her work often focused on issues of corruption and poverty and gave voice to disenfranchised groups. She first wrote for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, where she became a foreign correspondent in Mexico, and later for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and the New York Evening Journal, covering stories including the Pullman Railroad strike and the 1913 women's suffrage convention and profiling figures including Susan B. Anthony and anarchist Emma Goldman. Bly died of pneumonia in 1922.
Late 19th century investigative reporter Nellie Bly gets herself committed to the New York City Asylum to write an exposé on the conditions for the female patients there. Takes quite a while to actually get passed the getting in process, but it is well worth waiting for to get the horrifying but not......more
For its time, its quite a story and the reporter took quite a little risk when she got herself tossed into an asylum back in those days, depending on acquaintances to get her back out when the time came. I'm not sure I'd be quite so trusting, under those circumstances. She found quite a story behind......more