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'In 1886, a year before American journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to enter an asylum in New York and became a household name, Catherine Hay Thomson arrived at the entrance of Kew Asylum in Melbourne on “a hot grey morning with a lowering sky”.' (Introduction)
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Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian Undercover Journalist Who Went inside Asylums and Hospitals
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