Ten days in a mad house
Title
:
Ten days in a mad house
Author
:
Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922 author.
ISBN
:
9781983739460
Physical Description
:
79 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Corporate Subject
:
N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum.
Subject Term
:
Psychiatric hospital care -- New York (State) -- New York.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- New York (State) -- New York.
Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- 19th century.
Investigative reporting -- History.
Geographic Term
:
New York (N.Y.) -- Hospitals.
Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.)
Summary
:
In 1887, reporter Nellie Bly was admitted to the Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum in order to do undercover reporting on the conditions there, as part of the assignment given to her by Joseph Pulitzer at the New York World. The resulting reports were published later that year in a book, Ten Days in a Mad-house, and influenced substantial changes, followed by the closure of the asylum.
| Library | Call Number | Status |
|---|
| Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | 362.23 BLY | Nonfiction Collection |
| R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | 362.23 BLY | Nonfiction Collection |