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Mazo de la Roche

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born

January 15, 1879 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

died

July 12, 1961

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Mazo de la Roche, born Mazo Louise Roche, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.

The Jalna series consists of sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954, although each of the novels can also be enjoyed as an independent story. In the world of the Whiteoaks, as in real life, people live and die, find success and fall to ruin. For the Whiteoaks, there remains something solid and unchanging in the midst of life's transience--the manor house and its rich surrounding farmland known as "Jalna." The author, Mazo de la Roche, gave the members of her fictitious family names from gravestones in Ontario's New Market cemetery, and the story itself balances somewh...more

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Books by Mazo de la Roche

Average rating: 3.84 · 1,362 ratings · 89 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna, Book 7) 3.89 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1927 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Mary Wakefield (Whiteoaks of Jalna, Book 3) 3.80 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1949 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Building Of Jalna 3.84 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1944 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Whiteoaks Of Jalna 3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1946 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Return to Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna, #13) 3.93 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Morning at Jalna 3.69 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1960 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Whiteoak Heritage 3.81 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1940 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Young Renny 3.83 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1935 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Master of Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna, Book 10) 3.87 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1933 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Renny's Daughter 3.81 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1951 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Series by Mazo de la Roche

Whiteoaks of Jalna (16 books)
by Mazo de la Roche

3.84 avg rating — 1,327 ratings

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