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Feb 17, 2022 · Bly would feign insanity as “Nellie Brown” and get sent to the infamous Woman’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Located in the East River, Blackwell’s had a horrible reputation....
Nov 8, 2022 · She landed a job at Joseph Pulitzer ’s newspaper, the New York World in 1887. Her first assignment was to feign insanity in order to be admitted to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, a mental institution on Blackwell’s Island (now known as Roosevelt Island) in New York City.
Jul 29, 2019 · She had a hearing at a New York City court, where a judge ordered her to Blackwell’s Island, which at that time held a poorhouse, a smallpox hospital, a prison and the insane asylum.
In fact, from the moment she arrived at Blackwell’s Island, Bly dropped her insanity act. Yet, she found that this exacerbated, rather than helped, her position. “The more sanely I talked and acted,” she wrote, “the crazier I was thought to be.”
Her first assignment was to fake being insane and get committed to an asylum on Blackwell’s Island: the Woman’s Lunatic Asylum. Ten Days in a Mad-House, Public Domain. “The insane asylum on...
Mar 4, 2021 · Pulitzer assigned a story in which Bly would pretend to be mentally ill to get herself committed to the New York City Lunatic Asylum at Blackwell’s Island (now Roosevelt Island) in New York’s...
Description: The first in Bly's two-part series on her experiences incarcerated for 10 days in the women's lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island. Rights: Public domain.
