Ten Days in a Mad-House

Nellie Bly, posing as "Nellie Brown," went undercover to investigate the deplorable conditions of insane asylums. Her memoirs of this event form the basis of "Ten Days in a Mad-House," which forever changed the way the world looks at treatment and housing of the insane.

• Letters From The Looney Bin
• The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
• What Girls Are Good For: A Novel of Nellie Bly
• The Complete Works of Nellie Bly
• Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
• Diary from the Lunatic Asylum
• Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
• Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
• Bedlam
• Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital