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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.

Nellie Bly

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 106 pages

Ten Days in a Mad-House is Nellie Bly's 1887 undercover reportage. To expose conditions at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, she pretended to be insane so she could be committed and write from inside. Her clear-eyed account is an important early example of investigative journalism.

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Contents

  1. TEN DAYS IN A MAD-HOUSE; OR, Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island. FEIGNING INSANITY IN ORDER TO REVEAL ASYLUM
  2. INTRODUCTION.
  3. CHAPTER I. A DELICATE MISSION.
  4. CHAPTER II. PREPARING FOR THE ORDEAL.
  5. CHAPTER III. IN THE TEMPORARY HOME.
  6. CHAPTER IV. JUDGE DUFFY AND THE POLICE.
  7. CHAPTER V. PRONOUNCED INSANE.
  8. CHAPTER VI. IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.
  9. CHAPTER VII. THE GOAL IN SIGHT.
  10. CHAPTER VIII. INSIDE THE MAD-HOUSE.
  11. CHAPTER IX. AN EXPERT(?) AT WORK.
  12. CHAPTER X. MY FIRST SUPPER.
  13. CHAPTER XI. IN THE BATH.
  14. CHAPTER XII. PROMENADING WITH LUNATICS.
  15. CHAPTER XIII. CHOKING AND BEATING PATIENTS.
  16. CHAPTER XIV. SOME UNFORTUNATE STORIES.
  17. CHAPTER XV. INCIDENTS OF ASYLUM LIFE.
  18. CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST GOOD-BYE.
  19. CHAPTER XVII. THE GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION.
  20. Miscellaneous Sketches.
  21. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  22. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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