Ten Days a Madwoman by Deborah Noyes

Post date: Apr 27, 2018 12:33:15 PM

Nellie Bly was the most famous female newspaper reporter of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Newspaper publishers wanted her to write about fashion and cleaning. She wanted to write about hard hitting issues. One stunt skyrocketed her to fame. She pretended to be insane so she could expose the horrific conditions and cruel treatment of patients at the notorious asylum on Blackwell's Island in New York. She used her fame and continued her "stunt" journalism to raise awareness of poverty, political corruption, and expose the horrific battlefield conditions in World War I. Read Ten Days a Madwoman and find out how Nellie Bly broke barriers and changed the world of newspaper reporting.