839 reviews for:

Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island: Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent

Nellie Bly

3.8 AVERAGE

sewpark's review against another edition

3.5

dark informative reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization

jhexx08's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

bibliophile1085's review against another edition

3.0

dark informative sad medium-paced

raven_morgan's review against another edition

4.0

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Brief, but horrific. Definitely a recommended read if you're interested in the historical treatment of mental illness. And you will finish with a prayer that patients are no longer treated thus.

moo_rgane2002's review against another edition

4.0

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3,5

kaneebli's review against another edition

informative sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Classism

Moderate: Death, Violence

Minor: Racism, Xenophobia

faelinwolf's review against another edition

3.5

challenging informative sad

rossetto_e_guai's review against another edition

5.0

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Ho letto l’anno scorso la vita di Nellie Bly e da quel momento ho deciso che volevo leggere il suo reportage “10 giorni in manicomio”.
La scrittura della Bly è giornalistica, molto funzionale e priva di fronzoli. Gli orrori dei vecchi manicomi sono ormai tutti risaputi ma comunque fa sempre effetto leggere una testimonianza diretta di chi è stata chiusa in manicomio essendo completamente sana.

ereilly151's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

composingcomposer's review against another edition

4.0

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This is an exciting and haunting narrative made even more so by the fact that it is true (at least mostly, it is possible that Nellie Bly exaggerated a few things, but given the fact that we now know how poorly the mentally ill were treated back then I would believe most of it.)
 
As a side note, I would like to say that the Librivox reader of this book is very good, though I do wish there was an afterwards or something to explain how the asylum closed (because I know that it did.)