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Ten Days in a Madhouse

$16.05
Author: Nellie Bly

Publisher: Waking Lion Press

Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1434103749
ISBN 13: 978-1434103741

Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 1434121658
ISBN 13: 978-1434121653

"The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out." Twenty-three-year-old journalist Nellie Bly, describing New York City's most notorious mental institution, wrote those words in 1887 after getting herself committed to the asylum. After her release she wrote a shocking exposé called Ten Days in a Madhouse, launching her career as a world-famous investigative reporter and helping to improve conditions at mental institutions across the United States. Her story is just as remarkable today as it was shen she wrote it. Soon to be a major motion picture. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.