# Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book written by newspaper reporter Nellie Bly and published by Norman Munro in New York City in 1887. The book comprised Bly's reportage for the New York World while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island.
This edition published New York: Norman L. Munro, with "Miscellaneous Sketches: Trying to be a Servant", and "Nellie Bly as a White Slave". one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.
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Ten Days
In a
Mad-House.
BY NELLIE BLY.
NEW YORK: NORMAN L. MUNRO, PUBLISHER, 24 and 26 Vandewater Street
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.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by Norman L. Munro, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
NEW YORK:
NORMAN L. MUNRO, PUBLISHER,
24 AND 26 VANDEWATER ST.
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INTRODUCTION.
Since my experiences in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum were published in the World I have received hundreds of letters in regard to it. The edition containing my story long since ran out, and I have been prevailed upon to allow it to be published in book-form, to satisfy the hundreds who are yet asking for copies.
I am happy to be able to state as a result of my visit to the asylum and the exposures consequent thereon, that the City of New York has appropriated $1,000,000 more per annum than ever before for the care of the insane. So I have at least the satisfaction of knowing that the poor unfortunates will be the better cared for because of my work.
* Ten Days in a Mad-House
** Chapter I: A Delicate Mission
** Chapter II: Preparing for the ordeal
** Chapter III: In the temporary home
** Chapter IV: Judge Duffy and the police
** Chapter V: Pronounced insane
** Chapter VI: In Bellevue Hospital
** Chapter VII: The Goal in Sight
** Chapter VIII: Inside The Madhouse
** Chapter IX: An Expert(?) at Work
** Chapter X: My First Supper
** Chapter XI: In the Bath
** Chapter XII: Promenading with Lunatics
** Chapter XIII: Choking and Beating Patients
** Chapter XIV: Some Unfortunate Stories
** Chapter XV: Incidents of Asylum Life
** Chapter XVI: The Last Good-Bye
** Chapter XVII: The Grand Jury Investigation
* Miscellaneous Sketches
** Trying to Be a Servant
** Nellie Bly as a White Slave
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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