Mary jane ward biography

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Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical book The Snake Pit was made into an Oscar-winning film.
Mary Jane Ward was born on August 27, 1905 in Fairmount, Indiana, USA. She was a writer, known for The Snake Pit (1948) and The Philco Television Playhouse.

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Ward, Mary Jane (1851-1933) lecturer at Newnham College

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Ward, Mary Jane (1851-1933) lecturer at Newnham College

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1851-1933

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Born in Armagh, the daughter of the Revd Henry Martin, Congregational minister. A lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge, one of James Ward's most promising students, taking a first in the moral sciences tripos in 1879. Married James Ward 31 July 1884, had one son and two daughters.

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In James Ward's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Ward, Mary Jane

Born 27 August 1905, Fairmont, Indiana; died February 1981

Daughter of Claude A. and Marion Lockridge Ward; married Edward Quayle, 1928

Mary Jane Ward lived most of her life in Evanston, Illinois, where she attended Evanston High School and Northwestern University. She studied art and piano and won a year's scholarship at the Chicago Lyceum of Arts Conservatory. She began writing after her marriage to a statistician and published stories in such magazines as Woman's Home Companion and Good Housekeeping. The Snake Pit (1946), her best known book, is based on her experiences in a state mental institution, where she spent nine months after a nervous breakdown in 1941. Ward became an advocate for mental health, speaking and writing regularly on behalf of more progressive treatment of the mentally ill. In 1949, she was given the Women's National Press Club Achievement Award.

The Tree Has Roots (1937) deals with the lives of people without whom a university could not function: grounds crews, a night watchmen, a commons waitress, a stenographer. Ward

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Mary Jane Ward

American writer

For the Irish-born Cambridge-based suffragist, see Mary Ward (suffragist).

For other people named Mary Ward, see Mary Ward (disambiguation).

Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward at her typewriter
Born	(1905-08-27)August 27, 1905 Fairmount, Indiana
Died	February 17, 1981(1981-02-17) (aged 75) Tucson, Arizona
Nationality	American
Occupation	Novelist
Notable work	The Snake Pit

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.

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Ward authored eight books during her lifetime, the most noted being The Snake Pit, which received widespread critical acclaim after its publication in 1946. Ward's semi-autobiographical story about a woman's recovery from mental illness made more than a hundred thousand dollars in its first month; it was quickly chosen for Random House's book-of-the-month club, was condensed by Reader's Digest, and developed into an