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Terri
Feb 09, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: biography-autobiography-memoirs, non-fiction, history
Journalist Nelly Bly takes an assignment to get herself sent to the Blackwell Island Insane Asylum, exposing the treatment there and resulting in reforms by the state of NY. Her experiences are candid and very sad. One of the saddest things is how easily she was committed and had she not had others on the outside to arrange her release, it is likely she would have remained there as hopelessly insane (an act which fooled everyone she met - talk about preconceptions). What a courageous woman!
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MJ
Jan 24, 2016 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Quick read in conjunction with book group selection for this month, What She Left Behind, by Ellen Marie Wiseman. Nellie Bly is a fascinating woman and her Ten Days in a Mad-House is cited by Wiseman in her acknowledgments.
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