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Informazioni sull'operaA Feigned Madness di Tonya Mitchell
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book was so good! Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, gets herself thrown into Blackwell Island, an insane asylum in 1887, all for getting the story that would make her famous. I knew about Bly’s commuting but this story was told in an engaging and captivating way. Nellie Bly, in order to get a job at The World, agrees to be committed to Blackwell Island for 10 days. As she lives through those ten days, she commits to memory everything that goes on and writes a two piece article about the horrors she witnessed. Along with that, she goes to the police to report a death on the island that no one knew about. This book kept me engaged and on the edge of my seat. If you’re interested in anything about Nellie Bly, add this book to your list to read! ( ) Thank you to Edelweiss and the publisher for an advanced e-ARC in exchange for my honest opinion of the book. I have read an autobiography of Nellie Bly and also Women 99 but this historical fiction novel of Nellie Bly is terrific. It not only tells her story but also of her ten (10) days in the Blackwell Asylum. It is hard to put down, very engaging and well told. The dialogue keeps flowing and the extras that the author adds does not in any way detract from its greatness. A book even Nellie would be proud of! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. -Nellie Bly Elizabeth Cochrane has a secret. She isn't the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell's Asylum think she is. In truth, she's working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she's a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: in exchange for a job, she'll impersonate a lunatic to expose a local asylum's abuses. When she arrives at the asylum, Elizabeth realizes she must make a decision-is she there merely to bear witness, or to intervene on behalf of the abused inmates? Can she interfere without blowing her cover? As the superintendent of the asylum grows increasingly suspicious, Elizabeth knows her scheme-and her dream of becoming a journalist in New York-is in jeopardy. A Feigned Madness is a meticulously researched, fictionalized account of the woman who would come to be known as daredevil reporter Nellie Bly. At a time of cutthroat journalism, when newspapers battled for readers at any cost, Bly emerged as one of the first to break through the gender barrier-a woman who would, through her daring exploits, forge a trail for women fighting for their place in the world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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