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Nellie Bly

10 Days in a Madhouse

ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go through such an ordeal as the mission would demand? Could I assume the characteristics of insanity to such a degree that I could pass the doctors, live for a week among the insane without the authorities there finding out that I was only a “chiel amang 'em takin' notes?” I said I believed I could. I had some faith in my own ability as an actress and thought I could assume insanity long enough to accomplish any mission intrusted to me. Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
98 бумажных страниц
Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2021
Год выхода издания
2021
Издательство
FilRougeViceversa
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  • Jessica Garcíaделится впечатлением2 года назад
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🚀Unputdownable
    💧Soppy

    Wow, es innegable el valor de la autora y protagonista de ésta cronica sobre sus vivencias dentro de una institución para desequilibradas mentales. Bueno, eso cree uno al principio pero conforme la autora nos va relatando nos damos cuenta de que cualquier mujer en estado vulnerable sin ser enferma mental podía llegar a parar a este lugar. El grado de abuso y negligencia por parte de quienes decidían qué mujeres ingresaban al manicomio era horroroso. Sin hablar del trato y las condiciones inhumanas en las qué vivían las mujeres en este lugar. Por otra parte Nellie nos deja ver que el buen periodismo es sumergirse en persona en las entrañas muchas veces putrefactas de las situaciones que se quieren conocer para dar testimonio real de lo que le aqueja a la sociedad. Desconozco si hay más obra de este tipo de Nellie. Si ustedes saben, háganmelo saber.

  • Julie Laurberg Lund Kofoedделится впечатлением7 лет назад
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot

    So sad that this is aktually a true story

  • ruth Contrerasделится впечатлением5 лет назад
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Цитаты

  • CrushedUnderAStackOfBooksцитирует2 часа назад
    I made the acquaintance of Bridget McGuinness, who seems to be sane at the present time.
  • CrushedUnderAStackOfBooksцитирует3 часа назад
    This made the poor creature cry the more, and so they choked her. Yes, actually choked her. Then they dragged her out to the closet, and I heard her terrified cries hush into smothered ones. After several hours' absence she returned to the sitting-room, and I plainly saw the marks of their fingers on her throat for the entire day.

    This is actual madness

  • CrushedUnderAStackOfBooksцитирует6 часов назад
    As I passed a low pavilion, where a crowd of helpless lunatics were confined, I read a motto on the wall, "While I live I hope." The absurdity of it struck me forcibly. I would have liked to put above the gates that open to the asylum, "He who enters here leaveth hope behind."

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