It was rare for a woman to hold a job in the 19th century. Nonfiction, history, mental health history, memoirs release date. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer, please visit. Ten days in a madhouse audiobook nellie bly audible. On the 22nd 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. She checked into a womens boarding facility, acted erratically, and then allowed the alltooeager boarding house employees to call the loony bin. Ten days in a madhouse is a book written by newspaper reporter nellie bly and published by norman l. Nellie blys ten days in a madhouse nellie blys ten days in a madhouse author. Ten days in a madhouse is a book by american journalist nellie bly. Ten days in a madhouse full audiobook by nellie bly by non. Ten days in a madhouse librivox cd cover internet archive.
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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. Listen to ten days in a madhouse audiobook by nellie bly. In 1887 nellie bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and stunt reporter, had herself. At one end of the cabin was a small bunk in such a. A new feature motion picture based on nellie blys true biographical book. Dec 01, 2016 listen to ten days in a madhouse audiobook by nellie bly. Sep 10, 2009 briefly, ten days in a madhouse is nellie blys elizabeth jane cochrane seaman account of her ten days in a madhouse in new york in 1887. Crossing the plains in 1865 full audiobook duration. Audiobook cd cover for ten days in a madhouse by nellie bly, librivox edition.
Ten days in a madhouse the first stunt is always the bestbrooke kroeger. Nellie blys living nightmare why did this young woman intentionally check herself into an asylum. View the timeline below to learn how nellie bly got herself committed to blackwells insane asylum. Madhouse book simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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