Nellie Practices Insanity at Home

Title: Nellie Practices Insanity at Home
Description: This image is an illustration from Nellie Bly's 1887 book, Ten Days in a Mad-House, detailing Bly's undercover work as an inmate at the female asylum on Blackwell's Island. Bly's book caused a stir, exposing the asylum’s wretched conditions to a public audience.
Creator: Unknown artist
Date: 1887
Temporal Coverage: 19th century
Language: English
Subject: Investigative journalism, mental illness, 19th-century New York City, 19th-century American women
Source: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html