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Ten days in a mad-house : a story of the intrepid reporter  Cover Image Book Book

Ten days in a mad-house : a story of the intrepid reporter / Nellie Bly.

Summary:

Newspaper reporter Nellie Bly got herself admitted to a New York mental institute in 1887 to gather data undercover on conditions for patients.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780486835440
  • ISBN: 0486835448
  • Physical Description: 88 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
  • Edition: Dover edition.
  • Publisher: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2019.

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General Note:
Originally published: New York : Ian L. Munro, 1887.
Subject: Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922.
N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > New York (State) > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > New York (State) > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospital care > New York (State) > History > 19th century.
Women > Mental health services > New York (State) > History > 19th century.
Women patients > New York (State) > History > 19th century.

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