Frontmatter

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Introduction

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• Frontmatter
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: A Delicate Mission
• Chapter 2: Preparing for the Ordeal
• Chapter 3: In the Temporary Home
• Chapter 4: Judge Duffy and the Police
• Chapter 5: Pronounced Insane
• Chapter 6: In Bellevue Hospital
• Chapter 7: The Goal in Sight
• Chapter 8: Inside the Mad-House
• Chapter 9: An Expert(?) at Work
• Chapter 10: My First Supper
• Chapter 11: In the Bath
• Chapter 12: Promenading With Lunatics
• Chapter 13: Choking and Beating Patients
• Chapter 14: Some Unfortunate Stories
• Chapter 15: Incidents of Asylum Life
• Chapter 16: The Last Good-Bye
• Chapter 17: The Grand Jury Investigation
• About This Digital Edition

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Ten Days

In a

Mad-House.

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BY NELLIE BLY.

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NEW YORK:

NORMAN L. MUNRO, PUBLISHER,

24 and 26 Vandewater Street

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TEN DAYS IN A MAD-HOUSE;

OR,

Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island.

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FEIGNING INSANITY IN ORDER TO REVEAL

ASYLUM HORRORS.

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THE TRYING ORDEAL OF THE NEW YORK WORLD’S

GIRL CORRESPONDENT.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by Norman L.

Munro, in the office of the Librarian of Congress,

at Washington, D. C.

NEW YORK:

NORMAN L. MUNRO, PUBLISHER,

24 AND 26 VANDEWATER ST.

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