Ten Days a Madwoman
Author: Noyes, Deborah
ISBN: 9780147508744
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 15 Mar 2017
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
A gripping biography of Nellie Bly, pioneering female journalist and adventurer--a perfect choice for Women's History month--now available in paperback.
The compelling and true story of how one truly dedicated journalist admitted herself to an asylum to write a groundbreaking expose.
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 expose 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.
ISBN: 9780147508744
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 15 Mar 2017
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
A gripping biography of Nellie Bly, pioneering female journalist and adventurer--a perfect choice for Women's History month--now available in paperback.
The compelling and true story of how one truly dedicated journalist admitted herself to an asylum to write a groundbreaking expose.
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 expose 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.
