When she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg ...

When she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg ...

Nellie has a chance to work for Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the World, if she is willing to pose as a poor, mentally ill woman and investigate conditions at the hospital on Blackwell's Island ...

W hen she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg ...

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.

In 1887, American journalist Nellie Bly had herself committed to New York's notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum — on purpose, as part of an assignment from the New York World newspaper ...

“Who is this insane girl?” The year was 1887, and Nellie Bly had just talked her way into a job at the New York World.For her very first story, Bly agreed to feign mental illness in order to ...

Irish American Nellie Bly led a daring career as an investigative journalist that included feigning madness to expose abuse at an NYC asylum and completing a round-the-world journey in 72 days in ...