Ten days in a mad-house

By Nellie Bly

Subjects: Hospitals, Commitment and detention, Mentally ill, New York (N.Y.). Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island, New York (N.Y.)., Psychiatric hospitals

Description: In the 1800s, journalist Nellie Bly pretended to be mentally ill and spent 10 days in an insane asylum in order to report on conditions and abuses there.