Nellie Bly, a reporter, feigned madness in order to gain admission to an asylum. It didn't take too much effort for her to be diagnosed as insane, and taken away. In the asylum, she acted normally aga
Ten Days in a Mad-House is an upfront view of Nellie Bly’s experience in an insane asylum. As a reporter, Bly experienced what life was like in a woman’s boarding house. Pretending to be insane, she e
Ten Days In a Mad-House (1887) by Nellie Bly. Nellie Bly, whose given name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran, was a pio-neer of investigative journalism. She died in 1922. Of her many exposé assignments for
Nellie Bly was an American reporter best known for a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days. Bly also undertook an assignment to fake insanity in order to be placed in an asylum. Bly wrote p
IntroductionSINCE my experiences in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum were published in the World I have received hundreds of letters in regard to it. The edition containing my story long since ran out
