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Nellie Bly

10 Days in a Madhouse

ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go through such an ordeal as the mission would demand? Could I assume the characteristics of insanity to such a degree that I could pass the doctors, live for a week among the insane without the authorities there finding out that I was only a “chiel amang 'em takin' notes?” I said I believed I could. I had some faith in my own ability as an actress and thought I could assume insanity long enough to accomplish any mission intrusted to me. Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
98 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
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  • Jessica Garcíashared an impression2 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🚀Unputdownable
    💧Soppy

    Wow, es innegable el valor de la autora y protagonista de ésta cronica sobre sus vivencias dentro de una institución para desequilibradas mentales. Bueno, eso cree uno al principio pero conforme la autora nos va relatando nos damos cuenta de que cualquier mujer en estado vulnerable sin ser enferma mental podía llegar a parar a este lugar. El grado de abuso y negligencia por parte de quienes decidían qué mujeres ingresaban al manicomio era horroroso. Sin hablar del trato y las condiciones inhumanas en las qué vivían las mujeres en este lugar. Por otra parte Nellie nos deja ver que el buen periodismo es sumergirse en persona en las entrañas muchas veces putrefactas de las situaciones que se quieren conocer para dar testimonio real de lo que le aqueja a la sociedad. Desconozco si hay más obra de este tipo de Nellie. Si ustedes saben, háganmelo saber.

  • Julie Laurberg Lund Kofoedshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot

    So sad that this is aktually a true story

  • ruth Contrerasshared an impression5 years ago
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Quotes

  • CrushedUnderAStackOfBookshas quoted2 years ago
    It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
  • CrushedUnderAStackOfBookshas quoted2 years ago
    I insisted on sitting on the side of the bed and staring blankly at vacancy. My poor companion was put into a wretched state of unhappiness.
  • Jesus Koyochas quoted3 years ago
    What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. I have wondered if behind those sealed lips there were dreams we ken not of, or if all was blank

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