Tales of History and Imagination
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Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
In an age where female reporters were few and far between, and wrote on little more than fashion and gardening - Nellie Bly got locked up in a ‘madhouse’ to expose the horrors of such an institution. In this 10 minute episode Simone discusses her 10 days in a madhouse.
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Music, writing, narration, mixing usually all yours truly. This episode uses an arrangement of Steven Foster’s Beautiful Dreamer under the Asylum scene, played by me.
Main texts: Of course Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Madhouse. and articles on The Womans’ History Museum And Encyclopedia Britannica
About the Author: Simone Whitlow is an academic, competitive quizzer, songwriter and musician. She is currently on a multi-year mission infiltrating a giant corporation, probably no less insane than Blackwood Island Asylum.
Transgender, she uses she/her pronouns.