Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals
- Written by Kerrie Davies, Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW
Catherine Hay Thomson went undercover as an assistant nurse for her series on conditions at Melbourne Hospital. A. J. Campbell Collection/National Library of AustraliaIn this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages.
In 1886, a year before American journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to enter an asylum in New York and became...
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