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8 Οκτ 2021 · “As it turned out: Mary Jane was my vocation.” Until the end of her life, he served as her first reader, advisor, and caregiver. “Mary Jane was my life and when hers ended so, in essence, did mine.”
Mary Jane Ward (August 27, 1905 in Fairmount, Indiana—February 17, 1981, in Tucson, Arizona) was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical book The Snake Pit was made into an Oscar-winning film.
Mary Jane Ward has 14 books on Goodreads with 4247 ratings. Mary Jane Ward’s most popular book is The Snake Pit.
A dramatic best-seller, The Snake Pit vividly depicts one woman's plunge into the nightmare world of the mentally ill and her agonizing climb back to health and freedom. When it was first published, the book claimed attention as a moving study of mental illness based on personal knowledge.
1 Ιουν 2021 · Suffering a breakdown in 1941, thirty-five-year-old novelist Mary Jane Ward was diagnosed, or perhaps misdiagnosed, with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric hospital in upstate New...
26 Ιουλ 2018 · This chapter examines the close and productive relationship between Ward’s fiction writing and her experiences as a psychiatric patient and mental health advocate beginning with The Snake Pit in 1946 and including her final published novels, Counterclockwise in 1969 and The Other Caroline in 1970.
A 75th anniversary edition of the landmark novel that forever changed the way we think about mental illness and its treatment After experiencing a nervous breakdown in 1940, novelist Mary...
