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May 5, 2018 · Nellie Bly's investigative work became a classic in the annals of psychiatry and a cogent warning against inhumane treatment of the mentally ill. Full Episode Friday, May 31
- Dr. Howard Markel
- She Went to Great Lengths to Plan Her Undercover Stunt
- Conditions in The Asylum Were Worse Than She’D Imagined
- Bly's Exposé Had Immediate Results
- Her Time in The Madhouse Helped Launch Bly’s Career
Just 23, Bly was now one of a handful of female reporters in New York City. Determined to make her mark, she accepted an unusual — and dangerous — assignment. For years, rumors had swirled about conditions in one of the city’s most notorious places, the “insane asylum” on Blackwell’s Island. Now known as Roosevelt Island, Blackwell’s was home to a ...
Originally built to hold 1,000 patients, Blackwell was cramming more than 1,600 people into the asylum when Bly arrived in the fall of 1887. Extensive budget cuts had led to a sharp decline in patient care, leaving just 16 doctors on staff. But most disturbing of all was the prevailing wisdom of the age regarding both the causes of mental illness a...
Bly’s cover was nearly blown by a fellow reporter, but she was able to stick it out for 10 days, before her editor arranged for her release. Her first articles on her experiences were published within days, and the series became a publishing sensation. A month after Bly’s articles were published, a grand-jury panel visited the asylum to investigate...
Bly quickly became a household name and one of the most famous journalists in the world. Just two years after her madhouse expose, she made headlines again when she re-created the trip depicted in the book Around the World in 80 Days, circumnavigating the globe by herself — and beating the record by a week. Bly retired from journalism following her...
May 2, 2011 · In 1887, intrepid reporter Nellie Bly pretended she was crazy and got herself committed, all to help improve conditions in a New York City mental institution. “The insane asylum on...
- Bill Demain
Jul 28, 2019 · - The Washington Post. Advertisement. This article was published more than 4 years ago. Retropolis. She went undercover to expose an insane asylum’s horrors. Now Nellie Bly is getting her due....
- Diane Bernard
Nov 8, 2022 · And I did.” In 1887, investigative journalist for the New York World newspaper Nellie Bly went undercover to expose the dreadful conditions at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, a mental institution on Blackwell’s Island. Read more about Bly’s fearless investigation and how her work forever changed the field of journalism.
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within.
Apr 26, 2016 · After a thin breakfast, the patients — to Bly’s surprise — are sent to do all the cleaning and upkeep of the institution, even cleaning the nurse’s bedrooms and clothing (Ch. 11).
