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Ten Days in a Mad House (Hardcover)
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Ten Days in a Mad House (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R209
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Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative
journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph
Pulitzer's famed New York World newspaper, Bly went undercover as a
patient at a notorious insane asylum on Blackwell's Island.
Spending ten days there, she recorded the abuses and neglect she
witnessed, turning her research into a sensational two-part story
for the New York World later published as Ten Days in a Mad-House.
Checking into a New York boardinghouse under a false identity, Bly
began acting in a disturbed, unsettling manner, prompting the
police to be summoned. In a courtroom the next morning, she claimed
to be suffering from amnesia, leading to her diagnosis as insane
from several doctors. Sent to the Women's Lunatic Asylum, Bly spent
ten days witnessing and experiencing rampant abuse and neglect.
There, she noticed that many of the patients, who were constantly
beaten and belittled by violent nurses and staff members, seemed
perfectly sane or showed signs of having their conditions severely
worsened during their time at the asylum. Served spoiled food,
forced to live in squalor, and given ice-cold baths by
unsympathetic attendants, the patients she met during her stay
seemed as though abandoned by a city that had sent them there for
the supposed purpose of healing. Showcasing her skill as a reporter
and true pioneer of investigative journalism, Bly published her
story to a captivated and inspired audience, setting in motion a
process of reform that would change the city's approach to its
asylums for the better. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Nellie Bly's Ten
Days in a Mad-House is a classic work of American investigative
journalism reimagined for modern readers.
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