The Mad Girls of New York by Maya Rodale
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 days in the madhouse. Inside, she discovers horrors beyond comprehension. It’s an investigation that could make her career—if she can get out to tell it before two rival reporters scoop her story.
From USA Today bestselling author Maya Rodale comes a rollicking historical adventure series about the outrageous intrigues and bold flirtations of the most famous female reporter—and a groundbreaking rebel—of New York City’s Gilded Age.
- File Name:the-mad-girls-of-new-york-by-maya-rodale.epub
- Original Title:The Mad Girls of New York: a Nellie Bly Novel
- Creator:Maya Rodale
- Language:en-US
- Identifier:9780593436769
- Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
- Date:2022-04-26
- File Size:1.618 MB
Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. Title Page
- 3. Copyright
- 4. Contents
- 5. Dedication
- 6. Epigraph
- 7. Chapter One: Welcome to New York
- 8. Chapter Two: The Girl Puzzle
- 9. Chapter Three: Gather Up the Real Smart Girls
- 10. Chapter Four: Colton
- 11. Chapter Five: Girl Meets World
- 12. Chapter Six: What Girls Are Good For
- 13. Chapter Seven: Marian
- 14. Chapter Eight: A Delicate Mission
- 15. Chapter Nine: Colton
- 16. Chapter Ten: Somebody’s Darling
- 17. Chapter Eleven: Positively Demented
- 18. Chapter Twelve: Colton
- 19. Chapter Thirteen: Into the Madhouse
- 20. Chapter Fourteen: Behind Asylum Bars
- 21. Chapter Fifteen: Marian
- 22. Chapter Sixteen: Poor Unfortunate Crazy Girl
- 23. Chapter Seventeen: Colton
- 24. Chapter Eighteen: The Horror of Fire
- 25. Chapter Nineteen: The Evil of Enforced Idleness
- 26. Chapter Twenty: Marian
- 27. Chapter Twenty-one: Among the Insane Patients
- 28. Chapter Twenty-two: Colton
- 29. Chapter Twenty-three: Unspeakable Scenes in the Yard
- 30. Chapter Twenty-four: Marian
- 31. Chapter Twenty-five: Mad, Bad and Dangerous
- 32. Chapter Twenty-six: Colton
- 33. Chapter Twenty-seven: She Is Cursed Before She Leaves
- 34. Chapter Twenty-eight: Return to the World
- 35. Chapter Twenty-nine: Extra! Extra!
- 36. Chapter Thirty: City Hall
- 37. Chapter Thirty-one: Back to Blackwell’s
- 38. Chapter Thirty-two: The Mayor
- 39. Chapter Thirty-three: Once Again I Was a Free Girl
- 40. Chapter Thirty-four: Nellie in the City
- 41. Author’s Note
- 42. Acknowledgments
- 43. About the Author
Maya Rodale
