Ten days in a mad-house
Bly, Nelly.
Ten days in a mad-house - Cedar Lake, Mich. Feather Trail Press. 1/18/2012 - 90 p. ; 21 cm.
Nelly Bly, posing as a mentally disturbed woman, went undercover to investigate the deplorable conditions of insane asylums. Her memoirs of her ten day stay at Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum forever changed the way the world looks at treatment and housing of the insane.
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Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922.
New York (N.Y.). Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States -- New York (N.Y.)
Mentally ill -- Abuse -- New York (State) -- New York.
--Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York.
Ten days in a mad-house - Cedar Lake, Mich. Feather Trail Press. 1/18/2012 - 90 p. ; 21 cm.
Nelly Bly, posing as a mentally disturbed woman, went undercover to investigate the deplorable conditions of insane asylums. Her memoirs of her ten day stay at Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum forever changed the way the world looks at treatment and housing of the insane.
1449951716
Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922.
New York (N.Y.). Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States -- New York (N.Y.)
Mentally ill -- Abuse -- New York (State) -- New York.
--Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York.