Ten Days In a Mad-House (1887) by Nellie Bly.
The edition containing my story long since ran out, and I have been prevailed upon to allow it to be published in book form, to satisfy the hundreds who are yet asking for copies..
SINCE my experiences in Blackwell\'s Island Insane Asylum were published in the World I have received hundreds of letters in regard to it.
In previous chapters of the series, she has (without much difficulty) fooled various doctors and authorities into deeming her insane and admitting her tothe asylum, which is located on an island just east of Manhattan.
Of her many expos assignments for Joseph Pulitzer\'s NEW YORK WORLD, her voluntary (and undercover) journey into the lunatic asylum on Blackwell\'s (now Roosevelt) Island is perhaps the most well known.
She died in 1922.
Nellie Bly, whose given name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran, was a pio-neer of investigative journalism.
Ten Days In a Mad-House (1887) by Nellie Bly