Ten Days in a Mad-House

Ten Days in a Mad-House  (1887)  by Nellie Bly

Chapter I: A Delicate Mission→

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category. Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book written by newspaper reporter Nellie Bly and published by Ian L. 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. one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

• 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

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1922, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.