while testing the journalistic mettle of the intrepid Nellie Bly. Bly would pose as an insane woman and allow herself to be committed to Blackwell's Island -- New York City's notorious asylum.

Actress Caroline Barry (Thtr) was the star of 10 Days in a Madhouse, a 2015 biopic about 19th-century journalist Nellie Bly, who feigned mental illness to report on the happenings within a women’s ...

The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania.