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The compelling and true story of how one truly dedicated journalist admitted herself to an asylum to write a groundbreaking exposé. 
 
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 exposé 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 hi

Ten Days a Madwoman

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Puffin
      Published 7 February 2017
      ISBN-13 9780147508744
      978-0147508744
      ISBN-10 0147508746

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The compelling and true story of how one truly dedicated journalist admitted herself to an asylum to write a groundbreaking exposé. 
       
      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 exposé 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 hi

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