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Ten Days in a Mad House Paperback – January 19, 2012

by Nellie Bly (Author)

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This is Bly’s truly disturbing account (and expose) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning insanity. Including graphic depictions as to the treatment of mental patients and their unsanitary surroundings, Bly’s controversial 1887 expose reveals the scandal and brutality of mental health in the nineteenth century and the ease with which professionals were prepared to accept and treat mental “disorders”.

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Nellie Bly (1864 1922) was a pioneer woman in journalism. She remains notable for two feats: a record-breaking trip around the world in emulation of Jules Verne, and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. In addition to her writing, she was also an industrialist and charity worker.

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Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Bly Press (January 19, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781619492585
ISBN-13: 978-1619492585
ASIN: 161949258X
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 711 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,295,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #866 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Sociology > Medicine
- #30884 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Classics

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Issue Of "Ten Days in Madhouse" I Received is Incomplete

September 13, 2017

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After reading all the great reviews on this book I was excited to be getting a copy and eagerly waited with intense anticipation, just to be extremely disappointed. I was left feeling like a major part of the book was missing. There were no illustrations just a reference to sketches at the end of the article. Very little was mentioned about the experiences while inside the Asylum. Everyone else must have read a different issue or something. I do NOT recommend buying this particular issue - ISBN# is in photos, as well as pic of the book cover and the "notation" about sketches. The are 52 pages/104 front and back so it doesn't appear to have pages missing, just content.

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Maryann Anderson

This is NOT light reading

August 6, 2013

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Nellie Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane who was an American journalist. She was born in May of 1864 and died in January 1922. While she was working for a newspaper in New York City she was given an undercover assignment to feign insanity and allow herself to be committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island in order to write an expose of the inhumane way the women in the Asylum were being treated by caretakers, nurses and even doctors. This book is the true account of what she observed while in that Asylum.

She is amazed at how readily people in the medical profession proclaim her insane and how quickly they decide she needs to be committed to an Asylum. Once an inmate in the "Lunatic Asylum" she is dismayed when she sees the patients being taunted, laughed at, and even struck by nurses. The patients were also given inadequate clothing to keep them warm in a hospital that has no heat because the heat is turned on only for certain months of the year. She observes the cold, disgusting and inedible food that is served to the patients while the nurses are being served hot meals and being given fresh fruit.

This book, which she wrote from notes she took while in the Asylum, singlehandedly brought about serious reform in this country in the way people are diagnosed as mentally incompetent and also in the way they are treated if they have to be committed. I can't say I "enjoyed" this book but it was very enlightening.

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Basic Publication Offers Bly's Work and Nothing Else

December 16, 2017

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There are a number of publishers offering this book.

In any of the publications, readers will find the main story of how journalist Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (pen name Nellie Bly) posed as an insane person in order to gain entry into Bellevue hospital on Blackwell's Island. This is a revealing look not only into how people were institutionalized 130 years ago, but also the lack of knowledge of medical doctors at that time. The book also includes two short articles on employment agencies and women working in paper box factories.

What makes this publication different than others? There are hand drawn illustrations throughout other publications depicting Ms. Seaman at various stages of her investigations. The backs of those books feature pictures of Ms. Seaman and a list of words that might not be well-known to modern readers. The Annotations section offers an overview of Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum as well as notes on Ms. Seaman's participation. Her other books are also listed. This publication offers the main story and the two articles, and nothing else.

Excellent book for those interested in history or just curious about this slice of life in New York over a century ago. Four stars.

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Impressive 19th century journalism

October 14, 2017

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What a badass Nellie Bly was. I've been wanting to read this for a long time. I remember learning about Bly in school but was reminded again of her investigative reporting when I saw a 4-D film at the Newseum in Washington, DC that touched on a few groundbreaking events in the history of journalism. It has taken me too long to finally get around to reading her personal account.

I can only imagine how shocking this must have been at the time if it's release in 1887. Today, we have seen so many depictions in popular culture of the unsympathetic nursing and inhumane treatment of institutionalized people that I can't help but wonder what an uncensored Nellie Bly would write today without concerns of being improper. What she did was courageous in a way that is inconceivable in 2017, where someone with a cellphone camera can effectively expose inhumane treatment to the rest of the world with far fewer risks than a woman working undercover in the 19th century.

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January 14, 2018

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Nope, nope, nope, nope. Not a shot could I do what she did. She had quite a lot of faith in her editors to get her out of the asylum, too. I didn’t comprehend the risk involved in the adventure that she undertook until I reached the part where Nellie was locked in her room. All the rooms were locked individually in those days, and it was assumed by all that, in case of fire, the nurses and attendants wouldn’t bother to unlock all those doors individually. They would leave the inmates to roast to death. What a horror those poor people lived once they reached that island! And what a brave woman Nellie was to enter into their suffering in order to effect a change.

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Fearless young reporter gets the story

May 15, 2017

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Nellie Bly was the pen name of a fearless young reporter in New York City in the 1880's when she deliberately got herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on infamous Blackwell's Island to create a clandestine report on the horrible conditions there. As a result of her reporting, and her later testimony before a grand jury, major changes were made in the way people with mental problems were treated.

The book is particularly valuable to those specifically interested in the histories of either New York City or mental health care, But it was also an important early chapter in the life of a brilliant young woman, an early feminist who went on to become one of the most famous reporters of her day.

The writing is clear, concise, and very accessible to modern readers. The work is important and she gets the job done. More, you will probably just plain come to like Nellie Bly. I know I do.

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