Mazo de la Roche





Mazo de la Roche

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born
in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
January 15, 1879

died
July 12, 1961

gender
female

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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


Average rating: 3.95 · 2,025 ratings · 112 reviews · 29 distinct works · Similar authors
Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna, ...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1927 — 16 editions
The Building Of Jalna
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1944 — 15 editions
Mary Wakefield (Whiteoaks o...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1949 — 14 editions
Whiteoaks Of Jalna
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1929 — 12 editions
Morning at Jalna
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1960 — 10 editions
Return to Jalna (Whiteoaks ...
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1961 — 9 editions
The Master of Jalna
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1933 — 11 editions
Young Renny
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1935 — 7 editions
Whiteoak Brothers (Whiteoak...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1957 — 5 editions
Whiteoak Heritage
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1940 — 11 editions
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