Asylum Revealed

"We will have to prove that you are not insane at all." I had little confidence that I could deceive the institution's doctors, let alone that they would let me go... and my client even less so. Nellie Bly is the pseudonym of groundbreaking American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane. As a writer, Bly often stood up for female workers, but under editorial pressure, she was repeatedly pushed back to the 'women's pages'. Nellie took matters into her own hands and departed for Mexico to work as a foreign correspondent. In 1887, Bly moved to New York, where she applied to Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World. For an undercover assignment, she feigned insanity, so she would be locked up in the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, where rumors of the most brutal injustices were rife. Nelly managed to escape from the asylum after just ten horrific days and wrote about the atrocities and neglect she had witnessed in the psychiatric hospital in her world-renowned 'Ten Days in a Mad-House'. Will you be able to escape from this forsaken place, or will you, like many others, be locked up for the rest of your lives...?