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Mazo de la Roche


Born
in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
January 15, 1879

Died
July 12, 1961

Genre
Literature & Fiction


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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Average rating: 3.92 · 7,097 ratings · 536 reviews · 249 distinct works • Similar authors
Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna, #7)
3.84 avg rating — 886 ratings — published 1927 — 123 editions
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The Building Of Jalna (Jaln...
3.80 avg rating — 883 ratings — published 1935 — 107 editions
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Whiteoaks Of Jalna (Whiteoa...
4.01 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 1929 — 90 editions
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Mary Wakefield (Whiteoaks o...
3.92 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 1949 — 72 editions
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Morning at Jalna (Whiteoaks...
3.82 avg rating — 483 ratings — published 1960 — 15 editions
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Young Renny (Whiteoaks of J...
3.93 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 1935 — 56 editions
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The Master of Jalna (Whiteo...
3.96 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1933 — 92 editions
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Whiteoak Heritage (Whiteoak...
3.93 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 1940 — 54 editions
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Finch's Fortune (Whiteoaks ...
3.94 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 1931 — 70 editions
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The Whiteoak Brothers (Whit...
3.96 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1954 — 60 editions
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Series by Mazo de la Roche

The Building Of Jalna Morning at Jalna Mary Wakefield Young Renny Whiteoak Heritage The Whiteoak Brothers Jalna
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