Ten Days in a Mad-House

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Author

Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922

Title

Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent.

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Subject

Women patients -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59899

Release Date

July 10, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TEN DAYS IN A MAD-HOUSE; OR, Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island. FEIGNING INSANITY IN ORDER TO REVEAL ASYLUM HORRORS. THE TRYING ORDEAL OF THE NEW YORK WORLD’S GIRL CORRESPONDENT.
2. 2.INTRODUCTION.
3. 3.CHAPTER I. A DELICATE MISSION.
4. 4.CHAPTER II. PREPARING FOR THE ORDEAL.
5. 5.CHAPTER III. IN THE TEMPORARY HOME.
6. 6.CHAPTER IV. JUDGE DUFFY AND THE POLICE.
7. 7.CHAPTER V. PRONOUNCED INSANE.
8. 8.CHAPTER VI. IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.
9. 9.CHAPTER VII. THE GOAL IN SIGHT.
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. INSIDE THE MAD-HOUSE.
11. 11.CHAPTER IX. AN EXPERT(?) AT WORK.
12. 12.CHAPTER X. MY FIRST SUPPER.
13. 13.CHAPTER XI. IN THE BATH.
14. 14.CHAPTER XII. PROMENADING WITH LUNATICS.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. CHOKING AND BEATING PATIENTS.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. SOME UNFORTUNATE STORIES.
17. 17.CHAPTER XV. INCIDENTS OF ASYLUM LIFE.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST GOOD-BYE.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. THE GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION.
20. 20.Miscellaneous Sketches. — TRYING TO BE A SERVANT. MY STRANGE EXPERIENCE AT TWO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES . — Nellie Bly as a White Slave. HER EXPERIENCE IN THE ROLE OF A NEW YORK SHOP-GIRL MAKING PAPER BOXES.
21. 21.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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