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Nellie Bly
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 03:44 amBen is working on the new University webserver tonight (Castor) and for one reason or another I am here with him and dmc trying not to disturb them in a corner of their office.
As such I'm going to use this opportunity of being up insanely late with nothing better to do to write about a subject I've been meaning to actually write about for more or less the best part of a year - that is how long I have had the articles I have needed for this bookmarked in Firefox on my laptop. I know it's been about a year because that was when I was bored during the summer and spent many long days watching S1 and S2 West Wing episodes.
The episode that sparked me off on a wild interwebs search is called And It's Surely to Their Credit, in fact a particular exchange near the end of the episode between Abbey and Jed Bartlett:
( Look behind the cut for the transcript of the scene that is the inspiration for this post )
(Transcript found here.)
Nellie Bly's story is just as amazing as suggested by Abbey in her argument with Jed so I feel the need to draw attention to her (being unable to unveil an actual physical monument to her as the fictional Abbey did!) so here you go.
Nellie Bly on that wonderful information source that is wikipedia.
Of particular note is the link to Ten Days in a Madhouse which is the actual article that Bly wrote based on her experiences in a Mental "Hospital". It makes very disturbing but compelling reading and if there is anything any of you on my friends list choose to do today (should you have read down this far!) it is to read that article and marvel for just a moment at Bly's bravery and pioneering work.
As such I'm going to use this opportunity of being up insanely late with nothing better to do to write about a subject I've been meaning to actually write about for more or less the best part of a year - that is how long I have had the articles I have needed for this bookmarked in Firefox on my laptop. I know it's been about a year because that was when I was bored during the summer and spent many long days watching S1 and S2 West Wing episodes.
The episode that sparked me off on a wild interwebs search is called And It's Surely to Their Credit, in fact a particular exchange near the end of the episode between Abbey and Jed Bartlett:
( Look behind the cut for the transcript of the scene that is the inspiration for this post )
(Transcript found here.)
Nellie Bly's story is just as amazing as suggested by Abbey in her argument with Jed so I feel the need to draw attention to her (being unable to unveil an actual physical monument to her as the fictional Abbey did!) so here you go.
Nellie Bly on that wonderful information source that is wikipedia.
Of particular note is the link to Ten Days in a Madhouse which is the actual article that Bly wrote based on her experiences in a Mental "Hospital". It makes very disturbing but compelling reading and if there is anything any of you on my friends list choose to do today (should you have read down this far!) it is to read that article and marvel for just a moment at Bly's bravery and pioneering work.
