Nellie Bly's Madhouse expose amazed and shocked ... I merely tell in common words, without exaggeration, of my life in a mad-house for ten days. The eating was one of the most horrible things.

Actress Caroline Barry (Thtr) was the star of 10 Days in a Madhouse, a 2015 biopic about 19th-century journalist Nellie Bly, who feigned mental illness to report on the happenings within a women’s ...

The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind ... and came back from Blackwell's Island 10 days later with stories of cruel beatings, ice cold baths and ...