THE MAD GIRLS OF NEW YORK

Novel. 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 she gets an assignment--go undercover as a patient at Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum for Women. Inside she discovers horrors beyond comprehension.