Nellie Bly
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2015
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Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzer's famed New York World newspaper, Bly went undercover as a patient at a notorious insane asylum on Blackwell's Island. Spending ten days there, she recorded the abuses and neglect she witnessed, turning her research into a sensational two-part story for the New York World later published as Ten Days in a Mad-House.
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2015
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Around the world in seventy-two days: In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time; Six months in Mexico: She took the initiative to work as a foreign correspondent at the age of 21; Ten days in a mad-house: In 1887, Nellie Bly went undercover for the New York World newspaper by feigning insanity to investigate...
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