· This is a cautionary tale for the publishing industry. Today all that is remembered of Ivan van Auw, Jr., is that he is the agent who rejected The Snake Pit. To be fair, I’ll add that Mary Jane Ward had temporarily lost her nerve upon submitting the manuscript. “I had already named it The Snake Pit but had decided it seemed too dramatic.” Van Auw stared at a manuscript discreetly titled “V. . Mary Jane Ward began a movement in America to examine mental health facilities’ far from adequate care. Her novel, The Snake Pit (The Library of America, ), did for those imprisoned in these facilities what Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, did for the meat-packing industry/5(69). The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward is a semi-autobiographical fiction book based on Ward’s experiences in the mental sanitariums of the Fifties following the first of a number of nervous breakdowns. Best known as the vehicle for a Hollywood movie of the same title starring Olivia de Haviland, The Snake Pit was groundbreaking on a number of levels.4/5.
he Snake Pitis one of the first films to deal with mental illness as its main theme. The film is based on Mary Jane Ward's novel also titledThe Snake Pit which was highly praised as " the kind of wholly fresh book that makes the conventional novel seem dull and unrewarding" (Engle ). Mary Jane Ward () was the author of nine novels, including her three autobiographical novels that concern mental illness and its treatment—The Snake Pit (), Counterclockwise (), and The Other Caroline ().Her papers are held at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Larry Lockridge is Professor Emeritus of English at New York University, and has held. Mary Jane Ward () was the author of eight novels, including three autobiographical works that concern mental illness and its treatment: The Snake Pit (), Counterclockwise (), and The Other Caroline (). add to cart. List Price: $ (Save: 25%) Free shipping. Or buy from our partners.
Snake Pit Hardcover – June 1, by. Mary Jane Ward (Author) › Visit Amazon's Mary Jane Ward Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Mary Jane Ward (Author) out of 5 stars. 60 ratings. Larry Lockridge: Why it’s time to reassess Mary Jane Ward’s The Snake Pit. This spring Library of America reissued Mary Jane Ward’s novel The Snake Pit on its seventy-fifth anniversary. Based on Ward’s own nightmarish experiences as a patient in a New York State psychiatric hospital, the novel wasn’t just a huge commercial success and the basis for an acclaimed Hollywood movie; it also prompted a nationwide public reckoning with the care given to the mentally ill. The Snake Pit is a American psychological drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick. [4] [5] Based on Mary Jane Ward 's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, the film recounts the tale of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there.
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