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Working for joseph pulitzer and the world newspaper, bly went undercover to expose the atrocities that took place in the asylum. It was initially published as a series of articles for the new york world. One of her more famous undertakings was a recordsetting 72day trip around the world, based on the jules verne character phileas fogg from around the world in eighty days. Trailer 1 10 days in a madhouse synopsis in 1887, at age 23, reporter nellie bly, working for joseph pulitzer, feigns mental illness to go undercover in notorious blackwells island a womans insane asylum to expose corruption, abuse and murder. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. With caroline barry, christopher lambert, kelly lebrock, julia chantrey. Click download or read online button to get 10 days in a madhouse book now. After ten days, the asylum released bly at the worlds behest.
I felt the same way when i saw suffragette, another recent movie that is also about the mistreatment of women around the same time. Download now nellie bly was a popular american reporter best known for her recordbreaking trip around the world in 72 days. The book comprised nellie blys reportage for the new york world in 1887 while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the womens lunatic asylum on blackwells island. On the 22d of september i was asked by the world if i could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in new york, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Ten days in a madhouse by readbook 4 september 2017 nellie bly was an american reporter best known for a recordbreaking trip around the world in 72 days. Ten days in a madhouse best navigation, active tocprometheus classics pdf download.
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