Ten Days a Madwoman

<b>The compelling and true story of how one truly dedicated journalist admitted herself to an asylum to write a groundbreaking expos&#233;.&#160;</b><br> &#160;<br> Young Nellie Bly had ambitious goals especially for a woman at the end of the nineteenth century when the few female journalists were relegated to writing columns about cleaning or fashion. But fresh off a train from Pittsburgh Nellie knew she was destined for more and pulled a major journalistic stunt that skyrocketed her to fame: feigning insanity being committed to the notorious asylum on Blackwell's Island and writing a shocking expos&#233; of the clinic&#146;s horrific treatment of its patients.<br> &#160;<br> Nellie Bly became a household name and raised awareness of political corruption poverty and abuses of human rights. Leading an uncommonly full life Nellie circled the globe in a record seventy-two days and brought home a pet monkey before marrying an aged millionaire and running his company after his death.