Ten Days in a Mad-House Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors

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Description de l’éditeur

Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in the late 1800s to shed light on the horrific conditions of Victorian mental asylums. This is the eye-opening account of her experience.

Nellie Bly feigned insanity to be admitted to a mental institution with the intent of exposing its awful conditions first-hand. Her account reveals the institution’s inhumane treatment, abuse of power, and unsanitary environment, demonstrating the unnerving ease with which a sane woman is admitted to the hospital and the struggle she faces to escape. The publication of Ten Days in a Mad-House led to an entirely new journalistic approach and launched the stunt girl reporting era.

The chapters in this compelling volume include:
A Delicate Mission
Pronounced Insane
Inside the Mad-House
Promenading with Lunatics
Incidents of Asylum Life
The Grand Jury Investigation


Breathing new life into this fantastic journalistic expose, Ten Days in a Mad-House has been republished by Read & Co. Books featuring an author biography by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore.

GENRE
Essais et sciences humaines
SORTIE
2021
6 mai
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
98
Pages
ÉDITIONS
Read Books Ltd.
TAILLE
1,5
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