A review by ninakeller
Ten Days in a Mad-House by Brad Ricca, Courtney Sieh, Nellie Bly

4.0

In 1887, an intriguing work of investigative journalism was published, chronicling the experiences of Nellie Bly (pen name), who had deliberately admitted herself to a women's insane asylum as part of her reporting assignment. Her resulting exposé shed light on the appalling conditions within the asylum, and became a part of a larger body of literature that criticized the societal expectations that pathologized and marginalized those who did not conform to narrow standards of normalcy.