The Mad Girls of New York: a Nellie Bly Novel

✍ Scribed by Maya Rodale

• Book ID: 110597102
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Nellie Blye #1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593436769

✦ Synopsis

" Rodale crafts an adventure yarn worthy of a 19th-century bildungsroman, but there's still heaps of her signature wit and banter."--Entertainment Weekly**

An exciting novel based on the fearless reporter Nellie Bly, who would stop at nothing to expose injustices against women in 19th century New York, even at the risk of her own life and freedom.

**In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional, respectable and delicate to do the job. But then the New York World challenges her to an assignment she'd be mad to accept and mad to refuse: go undercover as a patient at Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum for Women.

For months, rumors have been swirling about deplorable conditions at Blackwell's, but no reporter can get in--that is, until Nellie feigns insanity, gets committed and attempts to survive ten...