Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Mad-House

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Nellie Bly:Ten Days in a Mad-House
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In 1887 muckraking journalist Elizabeth Cochran, who wrote under the pen name Nellie Bly, went undercover to expose the inner workings of the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island in New York City for the New York World. Impersonating a “crazy immigrant Cuban girl” named Nellie Brown, Bly spent ten days and ten nights at the asylum to learn how inmates were treated. She wrote of her experience in a series of articles that was later published as the book Ten Days in a Mad-House.

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