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Brave: Louisa Treger’s biography of Nellie Bly (inset) relates how she gets into Blackwell’s Island Asylum (pictured) to expose the mistreatment of patients.
BOOK REVIEW

Mad Woman: The story of a fearless journalist

Life inside a mental asylum can be pretty mad. But for female journalist Nellie Bly, it’s a reflection of her inner world

  • Kimberley Schoeman
7 min read