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Ten Days in a Mad-House [EPUB ebook]

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Nellie Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, an American journalist. Bly was a famous reporter and a pioneer of investigative journalism. As part of an undercover assignment in 1887, Bly pretended to be insane and spent ten days in an asylum in order to observe the conditions the inhabitants had to endure. Bly wrote a memoir on the experiences and uncovered the horrible and inhumane state of the asylum.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 118 ● ISBN 9781508001607 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Publisher Charles River Editors ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6626244 ● Copy protection without

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