02397cam a22003973u 4500 59899 UtSlPG 20260610134359.0 m cr n 260607r2019||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 RC Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922 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. 10 Days in a Mad-House Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2019 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Days_in_a_Mad-House Release date is 2019-07-10 Produced by Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "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.) Original publication data not identified N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922 Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century Psychiatric hospital care -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century Women -- Mental health services -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century Women patients -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59899 100725 100725