Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a Mad-House - Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors
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Ten Days in a Mad-House is an 1887 work by American journalist Elizabeth Seaman. Originally published as a series of articles for the New York World, the book contains Seaman's ground-breaking exposé of an asylum which she infiltrated by feigning insanity. Ten Days in a Mad-House led to a grand jury investigation and increased funding for the Department of Public Charities and Corrections, as well as an entirely new style of investigative journalism. Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864-1922), also known as Nellie Bly, was an American industrialist, journalist, charity worker, and inventor famous for her 72-day trip around the world in the footste…
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Ten Days in a Mad-House is an 1887 work by American journalist Elizabeth Seaman. Originally published as a series of articles for the New York World, the book contains Seaman's ground-breaking exposé of an asylum which she infiltrated by feigning insanity. Ten Days in a Mad-House led to a grand jury investigation and increased funding for the Department of Public Charities and Corrections, as well as an entirely new style of investigative journalism. Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864-1922), also known as Nellie Bly, was an American industrialist, journalist, charity worker, and inventor famous for her 72-day trip around the world in the footsteps of the fictional Phileas Fogg. Other notable works by this author include: Six Months in Mexico (1888), The Mystery of Central Park (1889), and Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890). Read & Co. Books is republishing this classic journalistic work in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore.
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- ISBN: 978-1-5287-9254-7
- EAN: 9781528792547
- Produktnummer: 36427503
- Verlag: Read Books Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 98 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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