Scan barcode
A review by draculaura21
Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
3.25
No real surprises here. Conditions at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island) in 1887 are exactly what you'd expect. No heat, bad food, physical and verbal abuse by staff, and abhorrently loose definitions of "insane." At least the Grand Jury investigation that resulted from this publication yielded an $850,000 budget increase. Straitjacket silver lining, I suppose.
The real interest here is Nellie Bly herself. A pioneer in the field of investigative journalism, she even took a solo trip around the world to turn "Around the World in Eighty Days" into fact. She did it in 72. Sounds like one heck of a lady.
The real interest here is Nellie Bly herself. A pioneer in the field of investigative journalism, she even took a solo trip around the world to turn "Around the World in Eighty Days" into fact. She did it in 72. Sounds like one heck of a lady.