Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business /

"In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental asylum. She emerged ten days later with a vivid tale about life in a madhouse. Her...

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Main Author: Roggenkamp, Karen, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]
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