Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly`s Experience on Blackwell`s Island (Illustrated Edition) 9781406898040

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Автор: Bly Nellie
Название: Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly`s Experience on Blackwell`s Island (Illustrated Edition)
ISBN: 9781406898040
Издательство: Echo Library
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ISBN-10: 140689804X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 96
Вес: 0.15 кг.
Дата издания: 29.08.2019
Язык: English
Издание: Reprint of an earlie
Иллюстрации: Illustrations, unspecified
Размер: 152 x 228 x 10
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Nellie Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (1864-1922), an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days and for her undercover work to report on a mental institution from within. A pioneer in her field, she launched a new kind of investigative journalism, and was also a writer, inventor and industrialist. She entered on her career in journalism when a letter she wrote to the Pittsburgh Dispatch caught the editors eye and he soon offered her a regular column to be written under the name of Nellie Bly. Her early work included a series of investigative articles on women factory workers but when the paper received complaints from factory owners she was reassigned to the womens pages to cover topics like fashion and society with which she soon became disenchanted. In 1885, aged only 21, she travelled to Mexico to serve as foreign correspondent, spending half a year reporting on the lives and customs of the people, and her dispatches were later published in book form as Six Months in Mexico (1888). In 1887 she left the Pittsburgh Dispatch and headed for New York where she took on an undercover assignment for Joseph Pulitzers New York World, agreeing to feign insanity in order to gain entry into the Womens Lunatic Asylum on Blackwells Island and investigate reports of brutality and neglect. The results of her investigation first appeared as a series of articles which later the same year were published in book form bringing her critical acclaim and also leading to a grand jury investigation which brought about an increase in budget for the Dept of Public Charities and Corrections.

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