How easily can a woman be called insane—and what happens when the asylum doors close behind her?

In Ten Days in a Mad-House, young reporter Nellie Bly takes an assignment: enter the women's asylum on Blackwell's Island and report what happens inside. Her plan begins at a boarding house, where she behaves strangely. Brief examinations follow, and doctors make judgments that place her freedom in other people's hands.

Inside, Bly finds cold rooms, thin clothing, hunger and cruelty. She listens to women who seem to her perfectly sane and watches how patients live behind locked doors. This firsthand account brings together the tension of an adventure, the force of an exposé and a personal plea for reform.

この本で学べること

• A reporter takes the risk Follow Bly as she puts herself inside the institution she wants to expose.
• Judgments made in minutes See how brief conversations with doctors can carry grave consequences for a woman's freedom.
• Life behind closed doors Feel the cold and hunger through small, telling details of the patients' daily lives.
• Women worth listening to Meet patients whose conversations lead Bly to question why they are confined.
• Anger held in check Read plain, quick sentences that turn close observation into an urgent question of responsibility.

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Readers who love true stories of daring, undercover reporting, social reform and women's history. It suits anyone curious how one newspaper article changed how a city cared for its most helpless people.