Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent. is part of the Mental Life catalogue. The record identifies Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922 as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

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The extracted text contains approximately 39,884 words, corresponding to an estimated 174 minutes of reading, and is divided into 24 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 16.3 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.107. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

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The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum, Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922, Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century, Psychiatric hospitals -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century, Psychiatric hospital care -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century, Women -- Mental health services -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century, Women patients -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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