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.
Entered
according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by Norman L. Munro, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
NEW YORK:
NORMAN L. MUNRO, PUBLISHER,
24 AND 26 VANDEWATER ST.
The book was based on articles written while Bly was on an undercover assignment for the New York World, feigning insanity at a women's boarding house, so as to be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. She then investigated the reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.
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