Nellie Bly
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·February 5, 2025dang
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Nellie Bly, America's first investigative journalist got her start in an asylum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26375490 - March 2021 (2 comments)
Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400878 - Feb 2020 (2 comments)
Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Madhouse (1887) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10926253 - Jan 2016 (1 comment)
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An amazing women with some... strange?... romantic preferences:
"In 1895, Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman. Bly was 31 and Seaman was 73 when they married. Due to her husband's failing health, she left journalism and succeeded her husband as head of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co., which made steel containers such as milk cans and boilers. Seaman died in 1904."
You can see more about her asylum expose here: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/11/nellie-bly-...
EDIT: Even better, the full book: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhous...