Ten Days in a MadHouse, Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a MadHouse, Nellie Bly
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Ten Days in a Mad-House

Author: Nellie Bly

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 3 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/30/2011

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In 1887, Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients. While there, she experienced firsthand the shocking abuse and neglect of its inmates, from inedible food to horrifyingly unsanitary conditions.

Ten Days in a Mad-House is Bly's exposé of the asylum. Written for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, Bly's account chronicles her ten days at Blackwell's Island and, upon its publication, drew public attention to the abuse of the institutionalized and led to a grand jury investigation of the facility. Ten Days in a Mad-House established Bly as a pioneering female journalist and remains a classic of investigative reporting. This edition also includes two of Bly's shorter articles: "Trying to Be a Servant" and "Nellie Bly as a White Slave."

About Nellie Bly

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on May 20, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Valerity (Val) on September 10, 2013

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