Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly

Long before Christiane Amanpour, Frances Fitzgerald and Martha Gellhorn blazed a trail in courageous investigative journalism, a pioneering and intrepid writer and journalist whose pen name was Nellie Bly opened up a whole new field in what had previously been a strictly male domain. Ten Days in a Madhouse was published as a series of articles in the New York World during 1887. Nellie Bly was given the assignment by her editor to have herself committed to an insane asylum in New York with a “view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of patients therein and the methods of management...” She was to feign insanity and get herself legally declared insane, pass the test conducted by the doctors and get committed. She was to chronicle her experiences and write a report that revealed everything that she went through in the asylum. It was not an easy decision to make and Nellie herself had doubts about the fact that once she was declared insane, her editors would ha...

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Chapters 01 and 02

Tuesday Jan 02, 2024

Tuesday Jan 02, 2024

Chapter 03

Monday Jan 01, 2024

Monday Jan 01, 2024

Chapters 04 and 05

Sunday Dec 31, 2023

Sunday Dec 31, 2023

Chapters 06 and 07

Saturday Dec 30, 2023

Saturday Dec 30, 2023

Chapters 08, 09, and 10

Friday Dec 29, 2023

Friday Dec 29, 2023

Chapters 11 and 12

Thursday Dec 28, 2023

Thursday Dec 28, 2023

Chapters 13 and 14

Wednesday Dec 27, 2023

Wednesday Dec 27, 2023

Chapters 15, 16, and 17

Tuesday Dec 26, 2023

Tuesday Dec 26, 2023

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