TY - BOOK AU - Bly,Nellie TI - 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 AV - RC PY - 2019/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum KW - Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922 KW - Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century KW - Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century KW - Psychiatric hospital care -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century KW - Women -- Mental health services -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century KW - Women patients -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century N1 - 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); Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59899 ER -