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Ten Days in a Madhouse is Nellie Bly’s (Elizabeth Jane Cochrane Seaman) account of her ten days in a madhouse in New York in 1887. Bly, in an act of stunt journalism that wold make her famous, pretended to be mildly insane so she would be sent to an asylum to see first hand what one was like. To begin the process she goes to a rooming house and one night she stays up all night staring at the wall. The stare fest alerts her roommate and scares the homeowner and the next day she fixates on her lost trunk and insists on finding it. At the same time she continually talks about too many foreigners and never having worked, which both seem strange to the working class people she is rooming with. These three things are sufficient for her to land before a judge and eventually in the madhouse where she endures the arbitrary and vindictive rule of the nurses who are little better than street toughs. At the end of ten days a lawyer from her paper the World secures her release.
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GenreLiterary Classics, Biography and Memoir
Length3 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 16, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
2CHAPTER I- A DELICATE MISSION
3CHAPTER II- PREPARING FOR THE ORDEAL
4CHAPTER III- IN THE TEMPORARY HOME
5CHAPTER IV- JUDGE DUFFY AND THE POLICE
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6CHAPTER V- PRONOUNCED INSANE
7CHAPTER VI- IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL
8CHAPTER VII- THE GOAL IN SIGHT
9CHAPTER VIII- INSIDE THE MADHOUSE
10CHAPTER IX- AN EXPERT(?) AT WORK
11CHAPTER X- MY FIRST SUPPER
12CHAPTER XI- IN THE BATH
13CHAPTER XII- PROMENADING WITH LUNATICS
14CHAPTER XIII- CHOKING AND BEATING PATIENTS
15CHAPTER XIV- SOME UNFORTUNATE STORIES
16CHAPTER XV- INCIDENTS OF ASYLUM LIFE
17CHAPTER XVI- THE LAST GOOD-BYE
18CHAPTER XVII-THE GRAND JURYINVESTIGATION
19Miscellaneous Sketchesby Nellie Bly
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