Ten Days in a Mad-House: Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island - Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Orders

"The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out." -Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) by Nellie Bly describes what happened when the author, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, went undercover and had herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. Bly's groundbreaking exposé of abuses in the treatment of mental health patients, which was originally published as a series of articles, led to significant reforms in the mental health system. In 2015 the book was turned into a movie starring Caroline Barry and Christopher Lambert.

Author: Nellie Bly
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: 02/19/1905
Pages: 114
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d
ISBN13: 9781646797424
ISBN10: 1646797426
BISAC Categories:
- History | Women
- History | Modern | 19th Century
- Psychology | History