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5 days ago · The real-life American Horror Story inspiration was born Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, although most know her by her pen name, Nellie Bly. Though known for various impressive writings, one, in particular, struck a chord with American Horror Story creators, called 10 Days in a Madhouse.
- Blake Stimac
4 days ago · Nellie Bly’s decision to feign mental illness was a response to a challenge presented by Joseph Pulitzer himself. Although her original pitch for a story about an abusive matron was declined, Pulitzer challenged Bly to investigate Blackwell’s Island, a notorious mental asylum.
- Kelli Wheeler
1 day ago · Nellie Bly’s idea to conduct a secret investigation on Blackwell’s Island, in the New York insane asylum, will be innovative and groundbreaking, and the action itself will be daring. The report that will be created will not only improve the situation of sick women locked up on the island, but will also go down in the history of journalism.
3 days ago · During her research, she stumbled across the story of Nellie Bly – an investigative journalist who, after gaining inspiration from Jules Verne, took her own real-life journey around the world in 72 days – and thought the story would perfectly compliment the classic production.
1 day ago · Director Juliet Forster’s adaptation introduces real life investigative journalist Nellie Bly in the fictional story of Phileas Fogg as he attempts to race across the world for a wager. Nellie Bly, a now largely forgotten historical figure, actually did circumnavigate the world and in less time than the fictional Phileas.
5 days ago · When the Blackwell Island Insane Asylum (subject of Nellie Bly’s notorious exposé, Ten Days in a Madhouse, and still visible in part on what is now called Roosevelt Island) became overcrowded...
6 days ago · An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the inside.
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