Ten Days in a Mad-House
by Nellie Bly
1887
ISBN/ASIN: B001L5SAMS
Number of pages: 94
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The book comprised Nellie Bly's 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 Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.
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