Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original Girl Reporter, Nellie Bly

by Noyes, Deborah
ISBN: 9780147508744
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The compelling and true story of how one truly dedicated journalist admitted herself to an asylum to write a groundbreaking expos .

Young Nellie Bly had ambitious goals, especially for a woman at the end of the nineteenth century, when the few female journalists were relegated to writing columns about cleaning or fashion. But fresh off a train from Pittsburgh, Nellie knew she was destined for more and pulled a major journalistic stunt that skyrocketed her to fame: feigning insanity, being committed to the notorious asylum on Blackwell's Island, and writing a shocking expos of the clinic's horrific treatment of its patients.

Nellie Bly became a household name and raised awareness of political corruption, poverty, and abuses of human rights. Leading an uncommonly full life, Nellie circled the globe in a record seventy-two days and brought home a pet monkey before marrying an aged millionaire and running his company after his death.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Noyes, Deborah
  • ISBN: 9780147508744
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 160
  • Publication Year: 2017

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