Bly would feign insanity as “Nellie Brown” and get sent to the infamous Woman’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Located in the East River, Blackwell’s had a horrible reputation.

In 1887, a nearly penniless Nellie Bly took an undercover assignment to investigate reports of brutality and abuse at the asylum on Blackwell’s Island, known today as Roosevelt Island. The ...

In 1887, American journalist Nellie Bly had herself committed to New York's notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum — on purpose, as part of an assignment from the New York World newspaper ...

The work of Nellie Bly may have been sensational, but it was by no means exaggerated or crude—as we know now, the conditions she exposed both in the labor industry and in the asylum were cruel ...

Irish American Nellie Bly led a daring career as an investigative journalist that included feigning madness to expose abuse at an NYC asylum and completing a round-the-world journey in 72 days in ...

Journalist Nellie Bly will be honored with a memorial on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, the site of a notorious mental hospital she exposed in 1887, according to news outlet The City. Bly ...

Nellie has a chance to work for Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the World, if she is willing to pose as a poor, mentally ill woman and investigate conditions at the hospital on Blackwell's Island ...

Elizabeth Cochran, who wrote under the pen name Nellie Bly, was one of the best-known female journalists of the Victorian era. She gained instant fame for her exposé of poor conditions at a mental ...

Christina Ricci is returning to Lifetime for Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story, which premieres Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. The Golden Globe-nominated actress stars as esteemed ...

One fall day in 1887, the New York police were contacted by the worried inhabitants of a women’s boarding house. The cops soon arrived and picked up a disturbed young woman named Nellie Brown ...