Report: Nellie Bly and Other Stunt Girls (and Boys) of the Late 1880s-Early 1900s
Tags: asylum, Blackwell's Island, madhouse, madwoman, Nellie Bly, New York Sun, New York World
"She has been doing newspaper work in New York for several months and is the metropolitan correspondent of a Pittsburgh newspaper. Her mother is the widow of a Pittsburgh lawyer. She is intelligent, capable and self-reliant, and, except for the matter of changing her name to Nellie Bly, has gone about the business of maintaining herself in journalism in a practical, business-like way."
Description:The New York Sun attempts to steal a march on the New York World's scoop after Nellie Bly's ten-days in the women's lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island.
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