Ten Days in a Mad-House

Originally appearing as a series of articles in “New York World” magazine and then published as a book in 1887, “Ten Days in a Mad-House” by the journalist Nellie Bly is the shocking true account of her time spent undercover at the Woman’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island in New York. Bly posed as a madwoman and was able to convince several doctors to have her committed to the asylum in order to expose the horrible conditions the female patients there were subjected to. Bly spent ten days in